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A. W. EICHELBERGER. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



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Who came from Itttingen, Germany, in 1728, 



AND OF 



HIS DESCENDANTS 



WITH A 



FAMILY REGISTER. 



COMPILED BY 



A, W. EICHELBERGER. 



HANOVER, PA. 

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PREFACE. 



The author regrets that he did not commence gathering ma- 
terial for this Record twenty years earlier. Had he done so he 
might have obtained much valuable information from persons then 
living, information which cannot be had now either by searching 
the records of churches or court houses, or by examining old grave- 
yards — deciphering the inscriptions on the old stones, as was 
shown by the fruitless effort to discover the old tombstone of our 
ancestor, Philip Frederick Eichelberger, who, as reported by com- 
mon rumor was buried in the old Winebrenner graveyard about 
September 20, 1776. This graveyard is situated about a mile north 
of the Borough of Hanover, in the corner of a field, owned by Mrs. 
Lydia Sprenkle, and was for many years the property of George 
Winebrenner, and thus still bears his name. 

At the time the writer first visited it in the Fall of the year, it 
was in a most neglected condition, overgrown with weeds and 
briars completely covering the place. Many of the stones were 
down, some buried in the ground and others broken off. The place 
was thus so difficult to explore that further examination was de- 
ferred until the following Spring. On making the second visit, he 
found the briars and weeds mown down and the ground compara- 
tively clear. Then he and his assistant with a sharp pointed iron 
probed the ground in all directions where the interment was sup- 
posed to have been made but failed to find that stone for which 
they were looking, and so concluded that there had none been put 
up for him, or that he had been buried elsewhere. It might be 
possible that the ground had been encroached upon and that grave 
destroyed. Such, alas! was the fate of the earlier Lutheran bury- 
ing-ground on the McSherrystown road; it has been entirely ob- 
literated! Therefore, it is not deemed safe to trust to these old 
graveyards where there are no churches near by to protect them; 
it would be safer far to trust that "art preservative of all arts," 
cold type and printer's ink. Still in the search for that stone, the 
author did find those of Caspar Reinacker and wife, and these were 

iii 



iv PREFACE. 

in a pretty good state of preservation, although the tombstones 
were almost entirely buried Fie had their remains raised and 
moved to a lot in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover. These were the 
tombstones of his maternal ancestors, who were buried in 1790, 
about fourteen years subsequent to the burial of Philip Frederick 
Eichelberger, his paternal ancestor. 

The writer feels that he owes an apology to those parties who 
phowed so great an interest in the earlier preparation of this Re- 
cord and furnished him much information for its foundation. The 
long delay in its completion was caused by two serious accidents, 
which rendered him unable for many years to prosecute the work. 
He was also anxious to have the Recoi-d correct, and as he had an 
opportunity to communicate with the old country directly, he open- 
ed a corre.'^pondence with the officers of the Old Lutheran Church 
at Ittlingen, Germany, which with the certificate of character, are 
inserted in this history. 

He thinks it due to Mrs. Catherine Young, of Dillsburg, Pa., 
now deceased(' Mrs. Blanche Smeltzer — nee Eichelberger, of Vir- 
ginia, and Mr. Alfred Gartman, of York, Pa., also deceased, to 
hereby gratefully acknowledge their assistance in procuring much 
of this first information of the heads of some of the lines. 

This has been a work of many years, and still is necessarily 
imperfect, many branches of the family having moved to the far 
West or South where all trace of them has been lost. Others have 
died out entirely in the male line, whicb of course is the only one 
perpetuating the name. The work of following out the female 
branches has been deemed too arduous and unnecessary to pursue 
to any great length. 

Owing to his advanced age and failing health, the author also 
wishes to say he has been advised to put into this shape all such 
information as he has obtained, trusting that in the near future 
some one with more ability may thoroughly complete this Family 

History. 

A. W. EICHELBERGER. 



NOTE. 

To those families or persons whose line?, have not been carried 
out, or if carried out, done incorrectly, we would like to say that 
room has been left that they may make such corrections as are 
necessary, or they wish. There are many families whose lines are 
very incorrect, but that came from no lack of serious effort on our 
part. It was never our intention to fully carry out the collateral 
branches, but we would very much have liked to have been able 
to carry the male branches out in their entirety, and made stren- 
uous efforts to do so. The result is our misfortune, not our fault. 
For all the errors to be found herein, we pray your kindly patience. 

There are many to whom thanks are due for assistance given 
in their own branches, but there are two gentlemen, to whose 
strenuous efforts much of the correctness of this later work is due, 
Mr. Covington D. Barnitz and Mr. Edward Gary Eichelberger, 
both of Baltimore, Md. They are both lawyers, and from their 
patient copying and searching, many wills and deeds were found, 
which assisted greatly in the placing of the earlier families. Had 
only Captain Eichelberger been as hale and hearty when this work 
was completed, as he was in the beginning, when he took his first 
notes, this record had been complete. As it is, it had to be finish- 
ed by one who was unaccustomed to such work, one to whom the 
family in its relationship as a whole, was an unknown quantity, 
and who begs you, to any errors to be wondrous kind. All the 
latter work which is correctly done here, is done for the sake of 
him whose kindness to others is but his daily act, as a slight me- 
mento of her gratitude and respect. 



His Loving Niece. 



Hanover, Pa., Dec. 25, 1900. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY, 



The Eichelberger family of whom we write, descended from 
those ancient Germans of whom the Encyclopedia Brittanica says : 
"In stature they were tall and vigorous, with long fair hair and 
fiercely blue eyes. Their dwellings were wooden huts, war and 
chase the favorite occupations of the men. Although violent and 
cruel in moments of excitement, they were rarely treacherous, 
and in the ordinary intercourse of life they appear to have been 
kind and considerate. Some of these rough traits may be noticed 
in the Pennsylvania German character even at the present day ; 
but so also their bravery, their religious devotion and their attach- 
ment to home and kindred. They greatly cherished the memory 
of illustrious ancestors and often listened with delight to songs 
celebrating their famous deeds.'' This last may be the trait which 
has, in its transmission, made us so fond and interested in our own 
family history. 

These ancestors of ours, as the liberty dearest to them— that of 
worshiping God according to the dictates of their own consciences 
—became more and still more curtailed, thought ofttiraes longingly 
of that free country far across the ocean where religious liberty 
might be theirs. We cannot wonder that they emigrated in such 
numbers. Rupp and Kapp tell us "that in 1709, between the mid- 
dle of April and the middle of July, the number of German Protes- 
tants that came to America, by way of London alone, was 11,294." 
In Gibson's History of York County, we find that the first Ger- 
mans who emigrated to America were the Sectaries, the Quietests, 
and those of other religious denominations, who on account of the 



8 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

extremity of their doctrines and practices, found it very difficult to 
get along with their more conservative Protestant brethren. But 
after these came the deluge : The Protestants found that there 
was a land of peace on the other side of the Atlantic, and they 
knew by sad experience that their own country was a land of war. 
The peace of Westphalia had turned out to be only a hollow truce 
after all, as far as Protestant Germany was concerned. They were 
deprived not only of the enjoyment of their own religion (which 
meant so much to them) but they were practically robbed of the 
fruits of their labors. No matter how industrious, how fore-hand- 
ed a man might be, he never was able to provide for his future. 
Naturally they rebelled, and only emigration afforded them relief. 

Most of these earlier German emigrants congregated in the 
neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, and York County, Pennsyl- 
vania. York, and York County were peopled with 'them, houses 
were built, farms were cleared, cities, towns and county centers 
were named and laid out. In 1740 we find them erecting large 
public buidings. And it was in or about 1769 that Jacob Fite and 
George Reinacker built Congress Hall ; these were sons of the 
earlier emigrants. But it was about 1730 that the most important 
accession to the German colony was made, that of a large number 
of young and enterprising business men, among a long list of whom 
we find the name of Eichelberger. During the Revolution, our 
Pennsylvania Germans furnished many soldiers who fought brave- 
ly and well for the cause they thought just and right. The Ger- 
man race, and their American descendants — all over these broad 
land as they are — are always worthy of our respect and admira- 
tion. We may well be pleased to be able to trace, from that home 
in Ittlingen, Germany, down to these dear free homes of ours, the 
growth and strength of the Eichelberger family as descended from 
our sturdy young ancestor — Philip Frederick Eichelberger. 

First take the family name. In those early days all surnames 
were given or chosen for a family or clan, either for the meaning 
of the name or derivation, or bearing upon the family residence or 
occupation. After some study over the matter, I have come to this 
conclusion, that in our case there must have been, according to 



I THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 9 

the church records at Ittlingen, as well as the fact of our having 
found other Eichelbergers of different descent than ours, a very 
large clan comprised of many families of Eichelbergers. Now the 
heads of each of these households, most likely had a name which 
bore some relation to his occupation. But the name borne by the 
clan entire, related to the situation of their family homestead or 
castle. It is translated thus : Er — he or they; Eiche — oak; Berg 
— mountain: the letter 'M " is apparently only used for the sake of 
euphony. "The Eichelbergers" — they are "the mountain oaks," 
a name suggestive of strength and tenacity. Some advance the 
theory that the family home, as by the translation of the name, 
was near the Black Forest. 

The question of spelling the name next becomes of interest to us; 
though in earlier times each family seem to have spelled it as 
seemed good in their own sight. In some old deeds I find it — "Ey- 
kelberger" and "Eigelberger." The South Carolinians have 
spelled it "Eikelberger " or "Ickelberger;" and I found it on old 
tombstones "Igelberger" and "Ickleberger." But now all of the 
name seem to have agreed upon the more conservative "Eichel- 
berger. " 

In the preparation of this family register I have come across sev- 
eral by the name of Eichelberger who emigrated to this country, 
both from Germany and from England. It would be exceedingly 
interesting to study up the early relationship of the now entirely 
separate families, who doubtless all came from one common home, 
some time, some where ; but it would be an exhaustless amount of 
work. Just the work that has been so imperfectly done here has 
taken years of letter writing and travel, as well as diligent applica- 
tion. It is only my purpose to take up the story of that young 
German, Philip Frederick Eichelberger, and give his history and 
that of his descendants. 

In the first that we assuredly know of the Eichelbergers, that is 
from the church in Ittlingen, down to the present-day, they are as 
a family Lutherans. That those of the name in Germany belong 
to that faith is easily traceable to the fact of their home being in 
that neighborhood which more than any other was stirred to the 



lO THE EICIIELBERGER FAMILY. 

depths by the divine teaching as spread by Martin Luther. But to 
me it is a beautiful sight to see them embracing the faith of their 
Fathers down to the seventh and eighth generations. 

As the homestead or cradle of the race was in Sinsheim, I will 
quote the following : "Sinsheim, principal town in the district of 
Sinsheim, county of Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden ; has 40,- 
000 inhabitants, 3 geographical miles southeast of Heidelberg on 
the banks of the Elseng, was founded 1099, was the seat of an Ab- 
bot, later of a City of the Empire. Was incorporated with the 
Palatinate, and then through debts became property of Conrad of 
Weinsberg. June 16, 1674, it was the scene of a great battle when 
the French General Turenne fought and defeated the Austrians, 
and on June 22, 1849, the Revolutionary Array of Baden under 
Mieroslaioski and Franz Sigel fought a part of the Neckar corps 
under Peuker." 

Early in the year 1887. I wrote to the Burgess of Ittlingen, as 
also to the Lutheran pastor there, asking for the Eichelberger 
family records. These are their replies, which t:ike us back to 
about 1670, when John Eichelberger was born very likely : 

(^Copy — Translated from the German.) 

Ittlingen, May 19th, 1887. 

To A. W. ElCnELBERGER, 

HdDover, York Co , Pa , U. S. A. 

Honored Sir : — 

In reply to your honored letter I send you the desired record of the family, 
from the Church recoids. I should have sent them before this, hut I wanted to 
get an extract of the Archives of the Lord of Gemiugen, which efTort proved in 
vain and caused me a delay of several weeks, and in spite of all the efforts of the 
court officers, nothing could be ascertained in regard to history of your family. 
According to our belief and judgment the Eichelbergers were all related ; there 
are no Eichelbergers living in our immediate neighborhood, and after a long and 
diligent search I could find no trace of them. 

The Pastor demands Five Marks for the Records, which you will please 
remit to me. 

Many thanks for the Dollar piece you sent me. 

Respectfully, 

Gg. HAGMEIER, Burgess. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. II 

Extracts from the Church Records of the Evangelical Con- 
gregation at Ittlingen. 

To A. W. ElCHELBERGER, 

Hanover, York Co., Pa., U. S. A. 
In tbe Birth and Baptismal Records of the above-named congregation, be- 
ginning in the year 1665, I find the following-named persons, bearing the name 

of ElCHELBERGER : — 

1. John Eichelberger's daughter — godmother, Nov. 14tb, 1675. 

2. Jacob E.— godfather, Febr. 16th, 1676, and again. May 8th, 1677. 

3. Marie Sabina, born Febr. 28th, 1679, daughter of Jacob E. and his wife 

Catharina. 

4. John E., single,— godfather, Aug. 20th, 1680. N. Eichelberger,— god- 

mother, Apr ^th, 1681, (Cannot be taken in consideration, as dates, 
&c., are uncertain.) 

5. Anna Catharina, born April 3rd, 1681, daughter of Jacob E. and his wife 

Anna Catharina. 

6. John William, born June 10th, 1683, son of Jacob E. and his wife Anna 

Catharina. 

7. Anna Elizabeth, born March 31st, 1684, daughter of John Eichelberger, Jun. 

and his wife Marie Barbara. 

8. John Jacob, born Oct. 2nd, 1685, son of Jacob E. and his wife Anna Ca- 

tharina. 

9. A child (name unknown) born May 16th, 1687, child of John Eichelberger, 

Jun. and his wife Marie Barbara. 

10. Catharina Eichelberger,— godmother. May 29th, 1687. (Perhaps the wife 

of above-named Jacob E.) 

11. John Henry E , born March 3rd, 1689, son of Jacob E. and his wife Anna 

Catharina. 

12. Philipp Frederick, born April 17th, 1693, son of John E. and his wife 

Marie Barbara. 

13. John George E , born Nov. 21st, 1693, son of Jacob E and his wife Anna 

Cathaiiua. 

14. Marie Barbara E , born Febr. 20th, 170O, daughter of John E. and his 

wife Marie Barbara. 

15. Anna Catharina E , born Oct. 30th, 1700, daughter of John E. and his 

wife Marie Barbara. 

16. Anna Margaretba E , born March 6th, 1701, daughter of John Eichelberg- 

er and his wife Marie Barbara 

Note : If the last three named children 14, 15 and 16 belonged to the same 
family, which is probably true to judge from the name of the parents, then there 
must be an error or an oversight in the dates of their biiths, which is also very 
probable, as the entries in tbe records were made at various times, and from 
separate entries made on slips of paper, which might have been imperfect. 

17. John George, born April 16th, 1704, son of John and Marie Barbara. 

18. John Martin, born Nov 16th, 1716, son of Philipp Frederick and his wife 

Anna Barbara. 

19. Anna Margaretha, born March 2nd, baptized March 5th, 1720, daughter of 

Frederick E. and his wife Barbara. 

20. John Fiederick, born Febr. 18th, baptized Febr 20th, 1722. son of Philipp 

Frederick and his wife Barbara. 

21. Barbara E , single,— godmother. Sept 21st, 1728. 



12 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

22. Margarethfi Barbara, born Aug. 0th, baptized Aug. llth, 1734, daughter of 

Frederick E. and his \vife Barbara. 

23. Anna Barbara, horn Fehr. 7th, baptized Feb. 9th, 1727, daughter of Fred- 

erick E. and his wife Anna Barbara. 

24. John Hierouymus, born June 21st. 1728, son of John George and his wife 

Juliana. 

25. John George, — godfather, July 5th, 1728. 

26. Christian Ludwig, born Oct. lOtii, baptized Oct. 20th, 1730, son of. John 

George and Juliana E. 

27. John George E.,— godfather, July 18th, 1731, and again Jan. 5th, 1732. 

28. Juliana Catharina E.,— godmother, July 16th, 1727. (Very likely the wife 

of John George E ) 

Note: In the year 1732 the name of Eichelberger disappears from the 
birth and baptismal records, neither does it appeal in the marriage records be- 
ginning in 1739, nor in the death records beginning in 1745. 

The genealogical record of your family founded on above extracts in con- 
nection with the information given by yourselves, would result in the follow- 
ing:— 

I. a. John Eichelberger, Senior. (1) 

One daughter, b. John E., junior, married to Marie Barbara. 

1. Anna Elizabeth, born March 31st. 1684. (7) 

2. , born Mny IGth, 1687. (9) 

3. Philtpp Fukueuick, born April 17th, 1693. (12) 

4. Marie Barbara, burn Febr. 2Uh, 1700 (14) 

5. Anna Catharina, born Oct 30th, 1700. (15) 

6. Anna Margaretha, born March 6th, 1701 (16) 

7. John George, born April 16tb, 1704. (U) 

c. Philipp Frederick, married to Anna Barbara nee Dorners. 

1. John Martin, born Nov. 16th, 1716. (18) 

2. Anna Margaretha, born March 2nd, 1720. (19) 

3. John Frederick, born Febr. 18th, 1722 (20) 
4 Margaretha Barbara, born Sept. 9lh, 1724. (22) 
5. Anna Barbara, born Febr. 2ud, 1727. (23) 

II. Jacob E., married to Anna Catharina. 

1. Maria Sabina, born Fubr. 28th. 1679 (3) 

2. Ann^i Catharina, born April 3rd, 1681. (5) 

3. John William, born June 10th. 1683. (6) 

4. John Jacob, born Oct. 2ud, 168'>. (8) 

5. John Henry, born March 3rd, 16S9. (11) 

6. John George, born Nov. 21st, 1693. (13) 

Notp:: In which way this family is related to the above (I. a, b,c,) is very 

difficult to ascertain from the records, but it is very probable that Jacob E. was a 

brother of John E , junior, (I. b.) consequently a son of John E , senior. 

III. John George, married to Juliana. 

1. John Hierouymus, born Apr. 21st, 1728. (^4) • 

2 Christian Ludwig, born Oct. 19th, 1730. (26) 

In which way this John George Eichelberger was related to the above fami- 
lies I and II, cannot be told with absolute surety, but that they were relations is 
very probable. But here the question arises: both families had sons by the 
name of John George, (I b 7 and II. 6,) which of the two is the last-named 
John George (III.)V Considering the time of birth and age of the two, the in- 
ference can be drawn, that the John George born in 1693, is a Bon of Jacob E. 
and Anna Catharina, his wife, and not the John George born in 1704. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 1 3 

Granting that these inferences are correct, we could place the Genealogical 
Record of the Family in the manner following: — 

John Eichelberger, Senior. 
Daughter, Jacob, John, junior. 

John George. Philipp Frederick. • 

In answer to your questions, I would reply as follows: 

1. Did any other Eichelbergers emigrate ? When, and what were their names? 
A. The church records give no information whatever on this point inasmuch 

as in 1733 the name of Eichelberger disappears from all records ; they must have 
therefore left these parts. Where they went to, however, is not known. 

2. What Christian church did the Eichelberger family belong to? 

A. As the Baptismal Records say nothing to the contrary, the family of 
Eichelberger belonged to the Lutheran Church. 

3. About the origin and former history of the Eichelberger family, nothing 
could be ascertained. 

4. Are there any Eichelbergers yet in your neighborhood, and what are their 
positions and circumstances ? 

A. There are no Eichelbergers about here. 

5. Are Christof and John George Eichelberger who emigrated in 1728, with 
Frederick Eichelberger, related with the same? 

A. Cannot fi ad the name of Christof Eichelberger in our church records; but 
John George (III ) who is named as godfather in Jan., 1732, (No. 27,) must have 
emigrated in the same year, 1732. Compare the relationship of this John George 
with Frederick (III.) According to this, they must have been first cousins. But 
two other cases are probable. If the last named John George is the one named 
in I. b. 7, then your great-grandfather must have been a brother to the same. 
Again, both might have been second cousins. Then the Genealogy would be aa 
follows: 

1. John E., Senior. 2. Son. (unknown.) 

John E , Junior. Jacob. 

Philipp Frederick. John George. 

If therefore Philipp Frederick and John George were related in this manner, 
then of the probabilities pointed out to you. I consider that your great-grand- 
father and John George Eichelberger were first cousins, the most plausible, I 
will, however, not encroach upon your theories. To allow you the free use of 
your own judgment in this matter, I have given you a true and correct copy of 
the church record. 

With the greatest respect, 

FREDERICK SCHWEIKERT, Vicar. 
Ittlingen, March 2-ith, 1887. 

I certify to the above extracts from the church records. 

T. REINHARD, Ev. Pastor. 

Ittlingen, March 24th, 1887. 



14 THE EICnELBERGER FAMILY. 

These establish the fact that Philip Frederick Eichelberger, son 
of John and Maria Barbara, was born April 17, 1693, in Ittlingen, 
near Sinsheim, then in the Grand Duchy of Baden, now in the 
Empire of Germany. That he was married. November 11, 1714, 
to Anna Barbara Dorners. Also, the fact that four little ones were 
born to them. In those early days it is likely that one who wish- 
ed to emigrate to foreign countries, especially one who like the 
subject of our sketch was of the backbone and sinews of the nation, 
one of the working people, was obliged to procure from the author- 
ities some sort of a passport. Every one of the descendants of 
Philip Frederick Eichelberger may well feel proud of that high re- 
gard and respect which the authorities of Ittlingen express in the 
following testimonial, the original of which is now in possession of 
a great-great-grandson, Edward S. Eichelberger, living in Freder- 
ick City, Maryland : 



[COPY.] 
Certificate of Good Behavior. ,^ 

Kaow ye, that the bearer of this, Frederick Eichelberger, a resident ^ 
citizen of the village of Ittlingen, near Sinsheim, said village belonging to s 
the High and Free Baronial (JorporatioQ of Beaniuir and Geikish, and ab- '. 
solutely inc )rporated with the Free State Baronial Domains in Suabi i. 
Canton Cirgiehagen, has huinhly made the followintr announcement to the 
authorities of the High and Free Haronial Domain of Bunuiug: 

In order to improve his condition and increase the means of subsis- 
tence, he is determined, together with his wife and 4 diildren, to leave 
home and emigrate into Pennsylvania, and he respectfully requests an at- 
tested Certificate in regard to his honoiabie name hikI tjood conduct ; which 
request is hereby and without hesitation granted; and now ; In the name 
of the High and Free Baronial Domain of Benniug and by virtue of my 
power, we hereby certify, that the said Phifip Fredurick Eichelberger and 
family have always conducted themselves obedient, honest, indastriom, 
true and honorable, and if the times and occasi >u A'ould permit it, should s 
have liked t > have him remain in our midst as an upright citizen. W>'. \ 
therefore recommend him and his family to the grace and good will of \ 
everybody. 

In testimony of this Certificate of the High and Free Baronial Doraaia 
of Benning, have I signed the same with my own hand, and corroborated 
the same by atlixing the seal which has been graciously entrusted to me. 

So done at Ittlingen, May 11th, 1728. 

^^^rr-^ High & Frkk Baromai., Domain, 

f SEAlfN CourouATioN OKriCIAL Src.NATcrrtK, 

^^=^1^^ AUGUST, CHRISTIAN ERNST KLEIN. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I5 

It makes a pleasant picture when one thinks of that sturdy- 
young husband and father, trying to make his own decision, as 
well as calming the fears of his young and possibly timid "Haus- 
frau," that they might by emigrating, better their fortunes and 
that of their children, as well as gain for all of them that long 
coveted boon, religious liberty. One can almost see them by the 
ruddy firelight, evening after evening, the day's work being done, 
talking and planning, longing yet half afraid ; for in those days 
it was a brave man who entrusted his little all of kin and fortune 
to the terrors of the then almost unknown ocean. But he and his 
wife Barbara at last decided to take their little ones, to put their 
trust in God, as always they had done heretofore, and emigrate. 
Again, one can picture that severing of home ties, those last good- 
byes to loving parents, to other loved ones and to more distant 
friends. It must have been a terrible wrench, one little appreciat- 
ed in these days of postal facilities, when one forgets how few let- 
ters were, at that time, carried safely over the land, still less over 
the water. But the die was cast ; and with their four little ones 
clinging to them, and with the wee babe, Barbara, in the mother's 
arms, they stood ready on the 22d of June, 1728, with thirty other 
Palatinates and their families, one hundred in all, to embark on 
that good ship, Albany, which set sail from Rotterdam, Holland, 
Lazarus Oxham was Captain, or Shipmaster, of this vessel, which 
brought them safely to the land of their adoption. They landed 
at Philadelphia, September 4th, of that same year. 

From Philadelphia they wf nt to join the colony of Germans who 
had settled in Lancaster County, Pa., along the Pequa Creek. Here 
Philip Frederick must have engaged very successfully in some busi- 
ness or occupation, for by prudence and industry he soon accumu- 
lated enough to purchase a tract of land. It was in this colony 
that he met his first misfortune ; a short time after they had land- 
ed his wife Anna Barbara died. To lose that young helpmeet, to 
have his fast growing little ones bereft of a mother's tender care! 
How they must have longed for a sight of the dear ones back in 
the mother country ! Although in a foreign land, there were doubt- 
less many around them who had learned to love the young wife 



l6 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

and mother and could sympathise witli them in their loss. I am 
sorry that we have no record of her death or burial, nor do we 
know where she is buried ; althousfh it is to be supposed along the 
hanks of the Pequa. A few years thereafter he was married to 
Magdalena, surname unknown, who we presume had come to this 
country with those of her own family, for the tradition is that the 
second wife came from Stuttgart, Germany. 

In 1743 our emigrant became a naturalized American citizen. 
Tradition says that he remained in Lancaster County until 1754, 
but here the stories rather differ. The one which seems most 
plausible is that he then went to a farm not far from Abbottstown, 
on the Pigeon Hills, where he stayed until he purchased the farm 
in Manheim Township, York County, Pa. Others believe that he 
went directly from Lancaster County to this farm. But as the 
original grant or warrant obtained from Thomas and Richard Penn, 
a copy of which is now in my possession, is dated April 28, 1761, 
we rather lean to the former story and think that he stayed on the 
farm near the Pigeon Hills until 1761, and then purchased this v/ar- 
rant from Conrad Low for the 220 acres, which has for all time 
since, 140 years, up to the present day, been in the possession of 
some member of the Eichelberger family. For the last fifteen 
years it has been owned by the writer. But it v/as in the home in 
Lancaster Cotinty that the four younger sons, Adam, Jacob, Leon- 
ard, and Lewis, were born. 

About the year 1770, Philip Frederick Eichelberger purchased a 
house and lot in Hanover village, as it was then called. This lot 
is situated on Broadway, between what is now the O'Bold Hotel 
property and the Tanger building. The house in which the family 
lived has long since been demolished. Here it was that Philip 
Frederick Eichelberger spent the last few years of his life, all their 
children having married and left them. Here they lived quietly, 
he and his wife, until his death. 

And doubtless as the burning question of revolting from under 
the bonds of England, was daily being moated, our ancestor gave 
to his sons the advice which his fast aging years kept him from 
adopting for himself; tor all of bis sons but Lewis, who was almost 



THE EICKELBERGER FAMILY. I7 

too young, were American patriots during the Revolution. And it 
is very likely they were animated by the spirit and advice of their 
father, who had grown to love the country of his adoption as his 
own. Just as the struggle for American Independence was becom- 
ing successful, just as her friends were beginning to see hope for 
her freedom, Philip Frederick Eichelberger died, on the 19th of 
September, 1776, aged 83 years, 5 months and 2 days. His re- 
mains, family tradition says, now slumber in the old historic bury- 
ing ground, about one mile north of Hanover. But all efforts to 
find his grave were unsuccessful. Probably owing to the unsettled 
condition of the times it was not as carefully marked as it should 
have been. So rests the ancestor of our line. 

Last Will of Frederick Eichelberger. 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. 

I, Frederick Eichelberger, of the Town of Hanover, 
in the County of York and Province of Pennsylvania, 
Yeoman, being of an advanced Age and weak in Body 
but of sound, perfect and disposing Mind and Memory, 
blessed be the Almighty God for the same. Do make 
and publish this my Last Will and Testament, in Man- 
ner and form following ; that is to say — 

Firste, it is my Will and I do order That in the first Place all my 
just Debts and Funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my Dearly beloved Wife Magada- 
lena, exclusion of the Yearly Support, settled and secured for her by 
Article of Agreement with my Son Leonard Eichelberger, and also ex- 
clusion of the Legacy hereinafter bequeathed unto her, one Bed and 
Bedding and all other the Furniture thereunto belonging, as also one 
Cow, and the sum of Five Pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania, 
which said Five Pounds shall be paid unto her immediately after my 
Decease. 

Item. I give and Bequeath unto my Son Martin Eichelberger, the 
sum of ten Pounds lawful Money of Pennsylvania, to be paid unto him 
in one year after my Decease. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto George Nease, Senior, one Shilling 
Sterling, to be paid unto him also at the end of one year after my De- 
cease. 
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l8 THE EICHELBEUGER FAMILY. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Adam Eichelberxer, the sum 
of Forty Pounds, lawful Money of Pennsylvania, as also unto Freder- 
ick Eichelberger his oldest Son, the sum of Ten Pounds, like M ^ley 
and to be paid at the same Time. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto Mathias VVymers' lame Son, the sum 
of Five Pounds of like M(jney, to be paid at tlic same Time. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my Grand Children, viz.. the Chil- 
dren of my Daughter Anna Margaretta, (who intermarried with Fin- 
sans Keafer,) viz, unto Magdalena Keafer and Barbara Keafer & Cath- 
arina, and Sabina Keafer, and Valentine Keafer the sum of fifty Pounds 
of like Money, to be equally divided between them Share and Share 
alike, and it is my Will further, and I do order and direct, that the 
said Last mentioned Legacies, shall be paid (jr discharged with Bonds 
which I have Respectively against the said Legatees and that tliere 
shall be no Interest charges unto them upon the said Bonds. 

And as for the Residue of all and Singular my Estate, be the same 
whatsoever and wheresoever, I give, devise and dispose of same in the 
following manner, that is to say, To be equally divided between my 
said Dearly beloved Wife, Magdalena, and the fivd following of my 
Children, viz: Ludwick Eichelberger, Jacob Eichelberger, Leonard 
Eichelberger, Barbara Hoake and Elizabeth Smyser, share & share 
alike and to their Heirs for ever. 

AND Lastly, I do hereby ncjminate. Constitute and appoint my Sons, 
Ludwick Eichelberger and Jacob Eichelberger, to be Executors of 
this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills 
and Testaments. 

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal tlie fifth 
Day of February, in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred 
and seventy-six, 1776. 

his 
FREDERICK X EICIIELHERGER. 
mark 

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and 
declared by the before-named Frederick Eich- 
elberger, to be his Last Will and Testament in 
the presence of us who have hereunto subscrib- 
ed our Names as witnesses in the Presence of 

the Testator. 

Christian Mili,iieim, 
Michael Danner, 
Arch. McClean. 




THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. ig 

This, his Will, states the fact of the death of his beloved daughter, 
Anna Margaretta, (Mrs. Keefer), and leaves us to surmise that he 
must have given during his life to his son Frederick all, and to 
Martin as well as to the younger ones, nearly all that he had to 
give them ; which would not be at all uncommon for a father to 
do, taking into consideration the fact of their having come of an 
age to marry and support themselves long before. Martin was a 
man fifty years of age and Frederick was forty-four when their 
father died. The children of the first wife were, as above stated, 
born in Germany. As each one married they located in or about 
York. Of the three daughters, Anna Margaretta married Vincent 
Keefer, July, 1738, by whom she had four children, Magdalene 
Barbara. Catherine, Sabina and Valentine. Barbara Eichelberger 
married Andrew Hoke, March, 1743. We are sorry that we have 
no further record of the second daughter than this. It is probable 
that they had children. Rumor has it that they moved to North 
Carolina. 

The third daughter and youngest child, Anna Barbara, 
who, after coming to this country was always called Elizabeth, 
was married to Jacob Smyser ; we do not know the date of their 
marriage. They had four children, Lemuel, and another son 
whose name we do not know, and two daughters, Elizabeth and 
Barbara. There are two completely different rumors concerning 
the whereabouts of this family, one is that they moved to Ken- 
tucky ; the other that they bought a home in York County, on the 
Berlin road, right where it leaves the turnpike ; some of their de- 
scendants are said to be residing there at the present time. But it 
was impossible for the writer to discover. It would have been 
pleasant to have carried out the record of the descendants of these 
daughters down to at least the third and fourth generations ; but 
the writer found it impossible to find any direct, positive trace of 
the homes or families of their children. 

There are many of the names, well honored and respected, of 
Keefer, Hoke and Smyser, all through York County, as well as in 
North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland. But in the 
com.pilation of a family history, one must only give facts as such. 



20 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

MARTIN EICHELBERGER. 

Martin, the oldest child of Philip Frederick and Anna Barbara 
Dorners, was born in Germany, and was only a child of twelve 
when he came to America. Doubtless he was of great assistance 
to his parents and soon learned to love the home in the new coun- 
try. In 1738 he was married, like his father, to a fellow-Palatinate. 
Anna Maria, surname unknown, who bore him five sons and two 
daughters : George, Frederick, Jacob, Bernhard and Martin ; Su- 
sannah and Mary. Martin was present at York when the town 
was laid out in 1741, and purchased lot No. 120. He was one of 
the original members of the first Lutheran Church in York. In 
the Pennsylvania Archives, 2d Series, Vol. 10, p. 781, we find Mar- 
tin Eichelberger, commissioned by King George II, Court Justice, 
October, 1757, to 1758. Then by George III, in 1760, the first year 
of his long reign. Again, by or under the same, he was commis- 
sioned Justice of the Peace, October 17th, 1764, to 1765. Also, 
March nth, 1771, to 1772, April 9th, 1774, to 1775. These last two 
commissions were granted by that Convention which framed the 
first Constitution of Pennsylvania, and by the President and Coun- 
cil under that Constitution. 

As Scharf 's History says : "The part which our German fellow- 
citizens took in that great Revolutionary struggle was manly, pa- 
triotic and distinguished, They furnished a great many soldiers 
and the Baltimore, Frederick, and Lancaster Germans fought face 
to face with the Hessians on many a bloody field. But the Ger- 
mans who did not dra\V the sword, did the Civil State quite as 
valuable and indispensable service." It was in this way that Mar- 
tin served his country. Several times he was chosen County Com- 
missioner. Martin Eichelberger was a strong man. Those were 
times when he must needs be brave, valiant and strong. He was 
industrious and economical, but when his countrymen were suffer- 
ing, from that need from which the invaded country always suffers 
most, he was one of the most generous. There is not a local his- 
tory which does not speak of the generosity of Martin Eichelberger 
and his sons. He was a prominent and influential citizen of the 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 21 

town of York ; he and his son George were among the originators 
of the Hand to Hand Fire Co. there in 1772. We find his name 
given in a list of Associate Judges (not learned in law) as early as 
1750. It is also appended, as one of eighteen most prominent citi- 
zens, to an appeal made to the Committee of Safety in Philadelphia, 
of which committee Benjamin Franklin was President, as to form- 
ing new Battalions, choosing officers for the same, &c. At the age 
of sixty-iive, in 1781, Martin Eichelberger died, leaving his widow 
and all his children except his son George, surviving him. For 
many years Martin kept a hotel, in those days called a "tavern," 
in York, but in 1760 he retired from active business and his son 
George took it in charge. 

GEORGE EICHELBERGER. 
George, born June 22d, 1739, at York, was from the earliest 
years of his manhood interested in, and working for the freeing of 
his native land from under the yoke of England. He held many 
positions of trust. The Pennsylvania Archives of the same series 
as before quoted, says : "George Eichelberger, Sheriff of York 
County, October 6th, 1768, to 1769, 1770 to 1771 ; Collector of 
Excise, 1767, to 1770." There was a Committee formed to protect 
the lives and property of those citizens who were either away with 
the array, or were too young, or for some other reason unable to 
protect themselves, also to keep law and order and to collect funds 
and material for the army. This committee was called "The Com- 
mittee of Safety," and had very great power. George was an im- 
portant member thereof. A Provincial Convention, which was 
but the forerunner of the one that gave us the Declaration of In- 
dependence, was held in Philadelphia, January 25th to 28th, 1775, 
to which George was a delegate. He was also a member of the 
Committee of Correspondence. George and his brother Jacob are 
mentioned several times as having been prominent in gathering 
and giving supplies for the army, " As early as May 21st, 1774, 
the Citizens of Yorktown assembled to take into consideration the 
distressed and deplorable condition of Boston. They collected a 
large sum of money which thej^ sent by the hand of George Eich- 
elberger." The fourth company of York County Volunteers was 



22 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

formed December 27th, 1775, of which George Eichelberger was 
Captain, Michael Hahn First Lieutenant, Baltzer Spangler Second 
Lieutenant. The following is a copy of a part of a letter from the 
Committee of Affairs of York, to the Committee of Safety in Phil- 
adelphia, dated December 31st, 1776 : 

Honored Sirs: — 

In these times of difficulty several gentlemen have exerted 
themselves much in the grand cause. Several Companies have 
marched, more will march from this County, so as to form a pretty 
good Battalion. The gentlemen who deserve the most from the 
public are David Jameson, Hugh Dunwoody, Charles Lukens and 
Mr. George Eichelberger, They have been exceedingly useful to 
most of the companies. As most of the Companies have chosen 
their officers, pro Tempore, an arrangement will be necessary as to 
field Officers. We therefore propose David Jameson Colonel, Hugh 
Dunwoody Lieutenant Colonel, Charles Lukens Major, and George 
Eichelberger Quartermaster of the York County Militia, who now 
march. It will be doing justice to merit to make these appoint- 
ments, and we make no doubt it will be done by your board. We 
congratulate you upon the success of the American Army at Tren- 
ton," &c. 

These suggestions were carried out and George Eichelberger ap- 
pointed Quartermaster of the Militia of York County. In or about 
the year 1761, he was married to Lydia Worley, of York. They 
had seven children : Jacob, John, Martin, George, James ; Fusan 
Lydia, and Mary, He seems to have been in the employ of the 
Government until the time of his marriage, and after, but at that 
time he took upon himself the care of the tavern. Here he spent 
the twenty years of his married life, here his children were born, 
and here he died at the age of 41, a short life but a useful one. 
He died a year or so before his father, as we see by Martin's will, 
which we would give but for lack of room. 

Jacob, the first child of George and Lydia, was made, probably 
in recognition of his father's distinguished services during the time 
of the war, a Custom-House officer, at the National Custom-House 
in Baltimore. Here he served efficiently for many years, the rec- 
ord he leaves being a good one. In 1785 he was married to Eliza- 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY. 23 

beth Burnetson, also of Baltimore ; she bore him a family of six 
children, — Charles, George Steyer, William, Samuel, Nelson and 
Baker. Of these Charles and Nelson died in infancy ; Samuel and 
Baker both died single. Samuel was a private in Captain Thomas 
Watson's Company of the 39th Regiment Infantry, Maryland Mili- 
tia. He was wounded at the battle of North Point and only lived 
a little over a year from that time, dying in 1815. George S. and 
William were both soldiers in the war with Great Britain in 1812- 
14. William was a private in the Baltimore Fencibles, First Regi- 
ment of Artillery, Maryland Militia, while George S. served as Cor- 
poral in the Independent Blues, the 5th Regiment of Artillery, 
Maryland Militia, in the same company in which his cousin Jesse, 
son of Martin, the weighmaster, was First Lieutenant. This fam- 
ily served faithfully in this war, this branch alone being represent- 
ed by three separate members. Only two of this family of Jacob, 
son of George, ever married, William and George S. 

George Steyer Eichelberger married twice, first Mary Rutter, by 
whom he had nine children, ^ — William George, Lawrence, Jona- 
than, Elizabeth M., Frances Harriet, Mary Ann, Hester Dysert, 
Isaac Burnetson, and Nelson Reid. After the early death of his 
wife, George S. married again, this time to a widow, Eliza Ann 
Boyle, by whom he had a family of three : James, Emma Law- 
rence and Thomas Speer. Out of this family, but two of the sons 
married, and neither of these had children. Of the second wife's 
children, James died young, but Thomas S. has descendants of the 
name. The daughters of the first wife were equally divided, two 
married and two single. Elizabeth M. married John Curlett and 
had a family, her three children being Mrs. Mary Eugenia Matine, 
Mrs. Ira Blake Kent and Mr. Thomas S. Curlett, all of Baltimore. 
The other married daughter of George S. Eichelberger has no 
child. In the second family. Miss Emma Eichelberger has the 
family Bible belonging to her father and from that has kindly giv- 
en much of this knowledge ; she resides in Baltimore, is still sin- 
gle. Her only brother who has children is Thomas Speer Eichel- 
berger, a man holding a prominent position in Baltimore. He 
married Mary Lee, by whom he had two daughters, both still sin- 



24 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

gle and at home. His only son Nelson, who assists his father, 
married Josephine IIofFacker, of Baltimore, and he also has three 
children, all still young, Helen, Thomas and Mary. 

The fatherof this family, George Steyer Eichelberger, died when 
the children of his second family were quite young. He kept a 
hotel until the year 1830 ; then he must have become clerk of one 
of the courts. In 1833, he was made Justice of the Peace, which 
office he held for several years. For so large a family as his, it 
seems almost incredible that he should leave no more descendants 
of the third generation than the six mentioned. 

His only brother who married was William, whose wife was 
Henrietta Brown, she having previously -married a Mr. Luke, and 
was a granddaughter of Col. Ignatius Wheeler. She bore him a 
family of thirteen, five of these dying in infancy or in early 
childhood. Maria Louisa, the oldest child, married Oliver B. 
Wight, a man standing well in his profession in Baltimore. They 
had nine children, four of these dying young ; three remaining 
daughters married well, and both the sons the same, having chil- 
dren settled in Baltimore and throughout Maryland. The second 
daughter of William, Nannie R., married Doctor Keenan, but had 
no family. Helen W. married Dr. William Burt, of South Caro- 
lina ; they had a family of fourteen children, but only one is now 
living, Dola Burt. 

Samuel Eccleston Eichelberger has very lately died. He had a 
beautiful home just out of Baltimore, on the York road, called 
"Locust Grove." He was a native of Baltimore and always resid- 
ed there. He was for many years a public weigher, and when the 
sugar refineries were in operation did an extensive business in 
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. He enlisted in one of the 
volunteer companies at the beginning of the Civil War, but was 
excused on account of physical debility. He was twice married, 
first to Sophia B. Andrews, she bearing him ten children,— Charles 
A. living in the State of Washington ; Henrietta M., wife of Sid- 
ney Hay ward, of Harford County, Md ; Sophia B., married Thom- 
as Howard ; Dwight, who married last April. The remainder of 
this first set of children are still single. Sometime in the 80' s, he 



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THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 25 

married Louise E. Turner and had five children, all of whom are 
still quite young people. Samuel Eccleston Eichelberger suff'ered 
for a long time with Bright's disease, of which he died, November 
lo, 1900. His next brother, John Carroll Eichelberger, lives in 
Harford County, Md., has a large farm, is married and has children, 
but although we wrote him we could hear nothing from him. The 
same must be said of the youngest brother, Frank Thomas. "We 
know he is married and living in Washington, D. C, and think he 
is connected with the War Department. 

William, son of William, was also married, and lived in Balti- 
more, as do a few of his children, whose names we do not know. 
He has one son, Harry L. Eichelberger, who is the Secretary of 
the Federation of Labor ; the men of this family are all industrious 
and good citizens. 

Jacob Eichelberger, father of this branch of the family, was also 
engaged in business for many years with his brother Martin, the 
tanner. The son William was, so his family inform me, a Lieuten- 
ant in the Independent Blues of Baltimore, and had a very fine 
record in the War of 1813-14. After the close of this war, he turn- 
ed his attention toward newspaper work ; he became a clerk of the 
Baltimore Gazette and afterwards Associate Editor of the same. 

It would have been pleasant to have carried this line to its com- 
pletion, but we never knew until not quite two weeks ago, of the 
existence of Jacob, nor of his being in the family of George and 
Lydia Worley. We were very glad to find all we could about him, 
but as the Record was then overdue we could not devote much 
time to the unraveling of his descendants. 

JOHN EICHELBERGER. 
John, the second son of George and Lydia, was born in 1762, and 
lived in York, his birthplace, during his long and useful life. He 
married a granddaughter of that celebrated man. Baron Johanne 
Daniel Dinkle, of whom and of whose romantic history every one 
in York County must have heard. Sarah Dinkle bore the following 
children — Eliza, Maria, Henrietta and Mary Lydia, daughters ; and 
Daniel, George and William, sons. Of the daughters, Eliza mar- 



26 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

ried a Mr. McCardell ; Maria married Jacob Lingenfelter. The 
former had her home in Baltimore, the latter in York, but of 
the familj' of either do we know anything. Henrietta married a 
Mr. Myers, of York ; their children were — Frank, Thomas and 
Eliza Jane, of these we know nothing more save that they resided 
in York. 

Daniel Eichelberger, the oldest son of John, became a very 
prominent son of his native town, was influential and prosperous, 
and filled many positions of trust in town and county, as well as 
being a very prominent worker in the early Lutheran Church of 
York. He married Rebecca Smyser, of that place, and had a fam- 
ily of five children. He was called from a useful life when in his 
prime, dying and leaving his family all surviving him. 

John, the oldest son of Daniel, left York when a mere lad. En- 
thused by the tales of adventure and travel as sent back by his 
cousins Barnitz and Charles, he went to Ohio ; stopped for a short 
while with Charles in Wooster, thence went to Mt. Vernon in the 
same State. About the year 1849 ^^^ went to California with a bad 
case of the gold fever, which was raging at that time. He used to 
tell the story that he came back with a "pocket full of experience," 
nothing more. During his stay in Mt. Vernon he married Amanda 
Mclntyre, by* whom he had four children. In Mt. Vernon he en- i 
gaged extensively in the dry goods business. When the call for 
troops was sounded in 1861, he was one of the first to respond ; he 
was made ist Lieutenant of Company K, 1426 Regiment of the 
Ohio National Guards. To both officers and men, John Eichel- 
berger, who was of a most genial, hearty and loving disposition, 
was so kind, so thoughtful, so much the friend, that at the close of j 
the war they banded together and presented him with a silver 
water service, as a slight token of their remembrance of his many 
lovable qualities. Upon his return to his home, he soon wound up 
his business at Mt. Vernon and moved to Mansfield. Here he be- 
came a traveling salesman, and was one of the first in his adopted I 
State. As one who knew him well tells us : "He was the most 
genial, big-hearted men I ever knew, so made a success at this 
business." He died lamented by many friends, at Mansfield, in 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 37 

1896, his wife having gone before him fourteen years. Their old- 
est son, Norman M., is like his father, a traveling salesman, repre- 
senting the National Biscuit Co. On their business he was at one 
time stationed at Towanda, Pa. Here he met, and in 1881 married 
Cora Bartlett. They have no children. 

Catherine Rebecca, only daughter of John Eichelberger, son of 
Daniel, was born at Mt. Vernon, but is married and living in Mans- 
field. Her husband, H. B. Dirlam, is a very prosperous lawyer 
there. They have four children, three young sons and one daugh- 
ter. Howard is studying at Cornell University, for which Jay N. , 
the next son, is preparing, while Robert York and the only daugh- 
ter Catherine are still continuing their studies at home. 

John H., the second son and namesake of John Eichelberger, 
married Elizabeth Lawlor, of Mansfield, where they reside with 
their two daughters, Helen and Margaretta. He too is with the 
National Biscuit Co., and is manager of the shipping department. 
The youngest, Henry Martin, is in Los Angeles, California, having 
a very lucrative business there in the wholesale paper line. He is 
unmarried. 

The three daughters of Daniel and Rebecca Eichelberger were 
married respectively, Mary Jane to Edward Eppley, of York, by 
whom she had three sons, the only one now living being Francis 
M. Eppley, a lawyer living in New York City. Elizabeth married 
Leon Rosenmiller, also of York ; they had four children, Julianna 
Anna, died in infancy, Edwin M., who lived to be 23 years old, 
Joseph E., who lived a bachelor to the age of 70, and Josiah Fred- 
erick, who was still living in York at the last the writer knew, at 
23 West Market Street. Georgianna Eichelberger married John 
Weiser, also of York, by whom she had one son, Harry. There 
may have been others in this familj', but we can hear nothing of 
them. 

Martin, the second and youngest child of Daniel, was a very im- 
portant man in the history of York, during his early life. His bi- 
ographical obituary in the York Daily, July 11, 1893, written by one 
of his many friends, describes him far better than I would be able to. 



aS THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

OBITUARY OF MARTIN S. EICHELBERGER. 

York loses one of its most promirTent citizens, and a representative 
of one of its oldest families. Tlie deceased was a son of the late Dan- 
iel Eichelberger, who was a well-known citizen to the older Yorkers, 
and who died many years ago. He was of a very retiring disposition, 
refined, modest and unassuming, and only those who enjoyed his com- 
panionship understood the grand qualities of the man. The beautiful 
and costly chapel erected on Prospect Hill Cemetery, was built at his 
expense, and stands a fitting monument to his generosity. He was an 
attorney by profession, but never practiced to any great extent. Dur- 
ing the war he acted as counsel to the borough. 

He graduated from Yale College witli the Class of 1858, with con- 
spicuous honors. He was the Philosophical Oration man of his class. 
He was also a member of the Skull and Bones Society of the college. 
His class consisted of 102 graduates, and he was one of the fifteen 
members honored by admission to the Skull and Bones Society. 

He paid much attention to the local and Colonial history, and was 
probably the best authority on the early history of York County of 
any man living at the time of his death. The late Judge Gibson gives 
the deceased credit for much information furnished in the compiling 
of his History of York County. His contributions to Colonial history 
made him a valued member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. 
At the time of his death he was director of the Farmers Nati(jnal Bank 
of York, President of the Commonwealth Club, member of the York 
Club, member of the York Masonic Lodge, and connected with sever- 
al business interests in the city, prominently among them being that 
of the Wire Cloth Factory. 

But one member of his family survives liim, his brother, Mr. John 
Eichelberger, who resides in Richland Centre, Wisconsin. Mr. Harry 
P. Weiser, whose mother was a sister of the deceased, is a nephew, as 
is also Mr. E. M. Eppley. which latter named gentleman's mother was 
also a sister. The deceased never married, but continued to live the 
life of a retired bachelor, in his fine home, on East Market Street, 
enjoying the friendship of a few chosen friends and what was to him 
the most delightful occupation, communion with the great autliors 
represented in his large and valuable library. 

In his death York has lost a good citizen, and those who have been 
recipients of his bounty a friend that will be missed. He was a man 
of large wealth, which has, no doubt, been judiciously disposed of by 
will. 

The funeral services will be held in the chapel of Prospect Hill 
Cemetery which was erected by him, Wednesday afternoon at three 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 29 

o'clock. His friends and the friends of the family are respectfully in- 
vited to attend. 

This Martin Eichelberger besides being a prominent citizen, was 
a most devoted son. After his father's death, his mother married 
Daniel Hartman. In Prospect Hill Cemetery, at York, he put up 
in memory of his father and mother and step-father, a beautiful 
chapel. There are many Eichelbergers buried in this cemetery, as 
well as in the churchyards of Christ and Zion Lutheran Churches. 

George L. Eichelberger, second son of John and Sarah Dinkle, 
was the first to study medicine in the whole "freund-schaft." He 
studied medicine in Philadelphia. In May, 1832, married Maria G. 
Spangler, of York, also a descendant of the celebrated Baron 
Dinkle. Dr. George practiced medicine in York until 1837, then 
moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Their first three children were born in 
York, two more in Cincinnati. In August, 1840, Dr. George, with 
his wife and five children, moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and here 
six more children were born. Here he practiced his profession 
until his death, December 4, 185 1. He was buried in Bellefontaine 
Cemetery, St. Louis. His wife survived him thirty-nine years, 
and she is buried in South St. Louis. Their children are : Adol- 
phus Spangler, Albert Peter, George Gardner, who sad to relate, 
was drowned in the Mississippi river in May, 1844 ; Jessie, Aman- 
da, Sallie Dinkle, John, Maria Gordon, Ophelia, Kate, Gardner 
Spangler, and Mattie. 

Of this large family, only seven are now living, all in the West. 
The eldest son is now a grandfather ; he married Josephine 
Gwin in 1855, and they had six children : Alice, who married 
Lewis B. Gwin, of St. Paul, Minnesota, and has three children, 
Harry, Andrea and Alice. Belle, the second daughter, married 
Moses Goyetta, also of St. Paul. They have two little ones. Belle 
and Blanche. The oldest son, George M., died in 1898, a bachelor. 
Harry, second son, married Annie Hagerman, both of East St. 
Louis. This couple have a son, Edwin P., born in 1898. Robert, 
third son, died at the age of 17, while Willie, the youngest child, 
married Lillie Vogel, and lives in Taylorville, HI. They have two 
little ones, Fred and Clara. 



30 THE EICIIELBERGER FAMILY. 

Albert Peter, second son of Dr. George, married Mary Barada. 
They lived in St. Louis, then moved to De Soto, where they reared 
a large family of children. He died several years ago. 

John, the doctor's youngest son, died as did the fourth daughter, 
Ophelia, in childhood ; while of the remaining daughters, Jessie A., 
Mrs. Thorp, is now a widow ; she has raised a large family of chil- 
dren, eight in number and all living. She has also several grand- 
children, who with their parents are living in St. Louis. Miss Sa- 
rah D., with her sisters, Kate and Mattie, Mrs. Crow, also a widow, 
are living together in the same city. Their brother, Gardner S., 
married in 1873, Mary F. Hickey, by whom he had two sons, John, 
aged 20, and William, 17 years. His wife died in 1883 and three 
years later Gardner married Jennie Marshall, and is raising a fam- 
ily of five little ones. 

William, third and youngest son of John Eichelberger and Sarah 
Dinkle, was born about the year 1812 ; he emigrated to Texas, at 
that time a great distance for a young man to go from home. He 
lived there almost all his life. Coming home on a visit a number 
of years ago, he expressed himself as charmed with his adopted 
State and gladly returned to it when the time set for his visit had 
expired. He owned a large ranch and numerous herds, and was, 
we have heard, a useful and popular citizen. He was a bachelor 
and lived to the age of 90, dying about ten years ago. This closes 
the record of John Eichelberger and his wife Sarah. 

MARTIN EICHELBERGER. 
Martin, third son of George and Lydia, was a tanner, by which 
business he made quite a fortune. He carried on this trade in Bal- 
timore, then retired and moved to York, Pa. He first married 
Mary Welsh, who bore him Catherine, Lydia, Mary and Ellen, 
daughters ; John, William, George. Samuel, Charles and Jacob, 
sons. Soon after the birth of this last child, Mary Welsh Eichel- 
berger died. A few years after this Martin married again ; his 
second wife was the widow of his cousin George, said cousin being 
the son of his uncle Frederick Eichelberger. The second Mrs. Mar- 
tin Eichelberger was a notably beautiful woman. Those who were 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY, 3 1 

boj'S at the time have told ns with the utmost enthusiasm of her 
wonderful beauty. In Frederick Christian's will he speaks of her 
son and the son also of his son George, as being the step-son of this 
Martin. It was shortly after this marriage, that Martin retired 
from business and moved to York, where he built a beautiful 
mansion, which is standing now in York. Of the daughters we 
know absolutely nothing. One of the sons, we think probably 
William, was drowned in the flood of the Codorus at York, in 1815. 
John settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He married 
Mary, name unknown, and had a family of descendants named 
Frederick William, James Francis, Eliza, John Myers, Emanuel 
W. and Charles Wesley, which son was an infant at the time of 
his young father's death. John was not quite forty when he died. 
We simply know that most of his children lived to maturity and 
settled in Baltimore. They like many others, of whom we could 
learn nothing will be obliged to accept our advice in the note to our 
preface and fill their own line out for themselves. George of this 
family married Elizabeth, daughter of a Mr. Schreiner, of Lancas- 
ter, Pa. He was quite a prominent man in that community, made 
several gifts to the town and finally left a piece of ground for a 
cemetery there which to this day goes by the name of "Schreiner's 
Cemetery." Elizabeth Schreiner and George Eichelberger had but 
three children — Martin, Elizabeth and George. Martin married 
Isabella G. Johnson, of Pennsylvania, and shortly after their mar- 
riage they emigrated to Lewistown, Illinois. Here George died in 
1885 ; Ins widow is still living at the age of 78. She bore hira 
seven children ; the first three all died young. Edwin, the only 
living son, resides now at Lewistown, Illinois, is married and has 
two married daughters, Mrs. Wm. Palmer, of Sioux City, Iowa, 
and Mrs. Charles T. Lacy, of Havana, Illinois. Frank and Helen 
Eichelberger, youngest children of Edwin, are still at home. Irene, 
daughter of Martin and Isabella, married Alvah Howes, of Peoria, 
Illinois. They have two children, a single son and a daughter, 
Mrs. Isabella Frey, who resides in Sioux City with her mother's 
sister. Dr. Agnes Eichelberger. To this lady belongs the honor of 
being the first physician of her sex of our name, at least as far as 



32 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

we have been able to ascertain. She has practiced for several 
years in Sioux City and has a remarkably fine practice. 

The other son of George and Elizabeth was George, Jr., who 
married — wife's name unknown — and had three children. George 
died while young and we know nothing more of him nor of his two 
daughters, Mary and Margaret. His son Marcus was living in the 
West at last accounts. Elizabeth Eichelberger, only daughter of 
George and Elizabeth, married Adam F. Hambright, who for many 
years was ticket agent at the Pennsylvania depot, Lancaster, Pa. 
This couple lived many years together. They were members of 
the Trinity Lutheran Church and for many years before her death 
Mrs. Hambright was a deaconess in the same. She was the mother 
of eleven children, ten of whom were living at her death. Four 
of her sons were prominent railroad officials, one was connected 
with the Pharmaceutical College of Chicago. One daughter is the 
wife of the Rev. Wm. Roop. D. D. Mary married Dr. Thomas 
Fahnestock, of South Carolina. Two other daughters married 
Lancasterians. Mrs. Elizabeth Hambright lived to a good old age. 
Her father died while still a comparatively young man. but her 
mother lived to a great age, dying not so long before her daughter. 

These are the only ones of the children of Martin, son of George 
and Lydia, that we have been able to trace. The Rev. John Mor- 
ris, D. D., in his letters writes thus : "Martin by his first marriage 
had quite a family of boys and girls, several of whom died in child- 
hood." It was he who told us of the son who was drowned, and 
of the great beauty of the second wife. 

George, Jr., youngest son of George and Lydia who reached ma- 
turity, married Eleanor H. Uling, of Baltimore, and had but two 
sons, John and William. We heard, but in a roundabout way, 
that the sons of George died before him. Almost all we know of 
this family is that George engaged in a large wholesale business 
in Baltimore, most successfullj\ 

Of the two daughters of George, son of the elder Martin, we can 
only say that Susan, or Lydia, for authorities differ as to this 
daughter's name, so 1 have given her — Lydia Susannah, married a 
Mr. Dull, of York, Pa. She was married in 1766, and had two sons 



THE EICHELEERGER FAMILY. 33 

and one daughter. Of the sons Henry and George we know very 
little, except that they became among the best of York's good citi- 
zens. The only daughter, Lydia, married Thomas Bethgall, a 
prominent citizen of Baltimore, and was well and favorably known. 
Mary Eichelberger, the youngest daughter of George, married 
Adam Welsh, of Baltimore. She bore him five sons and two 
daughters, Lydia and Eliza. Of these we know absolutely nothing. 

This closes the line of George, oldest son of Martin and Anna 
Maria. 

FREDERICK EICHELBERGER. 

The second son of Martin Eichelberger was called after his grand- 
father Frederick. He was born in the year 1740 ; he was never as 
patriotic apparently as his four brothers ; at least he did nothing 
for the cause. of freedom that has been recorded in history, al- 
though he may have given largely of his private means in the 
Biblical manner ; but of that we can not say. He married early, 
about 1766, Eva Myers, of York, and raised seven stalwart sons 
and one pretty daughter. Their children were John, Thomas, 
Daniel, George, Bernard, William, Charles and Sarah. Frederick 
seems to have been quite a large landholder ; he amassed what 
was for those days a fortune in farmlands. His home place was 
just out of York, where he lived many years. The only public ser- 
vice which Frederick rendered to his State, of which we have any 
knowledge, was that he served as Justice of the Peace in the last 
of the eighteenth century. Also, the history of York and Adams 
Counties says that in the year 1800, a hundred years ago, a Freder- 
ick Eichelberger served as a State Senator. As the Senator was 
Frederick Eichelberger, of the town of York, it was of course Fred- 
erick Christian. 

As he grew older he always was seen with a skull cap on his 
head, and from that he received the name of "Cappy Fritz." He 
was also often called "Ebert Frederick," why I am not prepared to 
say. He lived to a ripe old age, for as he died in October, 1824, 
he was just 84 years, 6 months and 2 days old. Frederick Chris- 
tian Eichelberger is buried in the old Lutheran burying-ground 



34 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

where Zion Lutheran Church, known as Lilly's, now stands in 
York ; no tombstone marks his grave. His remains were carried 
by his four able-bodied sons, John, Thomas, William and Charles, 
from the residence of his son Barnitz, one and a-half miles north of 
York, to the place of burial. This was told me by the daughter of 
Barnitz Eichelberger, with whom Frederick lived about six years 
after his son's death. The cemetery where he is buried is the old- 
est Lutheran graveyard in or near York. 

We have the will of "Ebert Frederick," which is very interest- 
ing, but far too long to give here. He had survived his lovely 
Christian wife, his sons Daniel, George and Bernard. The writer 
can just remember seeing this interesting old man as he came up 
to Hanover on business ; can just remember hearing him spoken of 
by one member of the family to another, who had asked which 
Frederick it was that had come, as "The rich one." To one who 
was but a little child at the time the old man instantly became an 
object of great interest, one whom he never forgot, although only 
four years of age. He remembers hini clearly, a little, wiry, thin 
old man, with a pair of the brightest eyes he had ever seen. Fred- 
erick is described by the Rev. Dr. Morris, as he looked to him in 
1810, as a "thin, slightly built old man, wrinkled and delicate, who 
did not look at that time able to live fourteen years longer." In 
all descriptions of "Cappy Fritz" he is spoken of as being small, 
which is unusual in this family. 

JOHN EICHELBERGER, (of Frederick.) 

Of his eldest son we know little except that he was a merchant 
in Baltimore, or otherwise engaged in a very lucrative business in 
that city. Business must have absorbed him until he was consider- 
ably over thirty years of age, for not until that age did he marry 
Mary Lydia, oldest daughter of his cousin John and Sarah Dinkle 
Eichelberger. Soon after their marriage he bought a beautiful 
home three miles from Baltimore, where their three little girls 
were born. Here about 1812 John died, leaving everything to his 
widow. She in her turn died in 1831 or 1832, dividing her proper- 
ty between her three daughters, who were Harriet (Mrs. Musser,) 
Mary and Catherine. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY, 35 

THOMAS EICHELBERGEK. 

The second son of Ebert Frederick, Thomas, lived on a farm of 
his father's near York. He was married when quite young to 
Elizabeth Welsh and they had only one son, Samuel, who lived and 
died a bachelor. All we can give of Samuel is another recollection 
of Dr. Morris, who was his cousin — "Ebert Frederick" and Dr. Mor- 
ris's father having married sisters. But unfortunately these recol- 
lections of his are rather vague, as he was a mere boy when these 
cousins were men of fifty. At any rate, all we do know of Samuel ^ 
is the Rev. Dr.'s story of a race horse which Samuel owned and 
raced one day in York, against that of a stranger. Whether it 
would be correct to infer from this that Samuel was much of a 
sport or not, I cannot say. 

Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Eichelberger, died in her 38th 
year ; she lies buried in one of the old cemeteries near York, and 
on her gravestone is an epitaph which for its quaintness and old- 
time flavor I give here : 

Stop, passers-bj', where I do lie, 
As you are now so once was I ; 
As I am now so you will be, 
Prepare for death and follow me. 

And now Samuel and Thomas lie beside her. 

DANIEL EICHELBERGER 
Daniel, Frederick's third son, became a citizen of Yorktown and 
married into a family which like several others, is all intermarried 
with the Eichelbergers. Frederick Christian's only sister married 
Daniel Barnitz, and his son Daniel married one of their descend- 
ants. But first I must say that there is a mystery about the wife 
of Daniel. There is a family in Middletown, Pa., who claim to be 
descendants of Daniel Eichelberger, of York ; they say by his sec- 
ond wife. Now we can only say that there is no record of this 
Daniel having married otherwise than a Miss Barnitz. But there 
is no record to be found anywhere of any other Daniel Eichelberg- 
er than this one, save the others which we give in these pages. In 
one way and another, there is certainly a mystery about the wife 
of Daniel. The descendants of his, those who we can positively 



36 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

prove are descendants, all claim that their great-grandraother was 
Susannah Barnitz. We have a copy of the will of "Ebert Freder- 
ick," and in it he speaks of " the widow of my son Daniel" as Ly- 
dia. We would then think that in this perhaps laid the mystery 
of the two marriages ; but we are confidently assured that the 
name of the lady who was the great grandmother of the family of 
our name in Middletown was Elizabeth. So, to go back to our first 
statement, Daniel's marriage lies shrouded in mystery. This is 
one of the puzzles which one engaged upon such a work often 
stumbles upon ; but this is the worst, the most unfathomable, that 
we have met with in this work. 

At any rate, Daniel married a Miss Barnitz, supposedly Susan- 
nah, about 1795 or 1796 ; had four children -Eva Catharine, Juli- 
ana, Barnitz and Henrietta. Daniel died in 181 1, and his widow 
survived him thirty-nine years. This is from the stones that 
mark their graves. 

Eva Catharine, born in 1796, married William Nes. She and her 
sister were young ladies together and were the belles of York. The 
stories they used to relate were highly entertaining, when as old 
ladies they sat by the fire o' nights and the younger ones coaxed 
stories of bygone days from them. They attended the reception 
given to La Marquis de LaFayette on his sojourn in York on the 
occasion of his second visit to America. He was entertained in 
the house which was built originally by Daniel Eichelberger, now 
owned by one of the Nes family, a descendant of his oldest daugh- 
ter. 

Daniel and his brother Thomas were both good citizens, quiet 
and plain men ; as one who knew of them said : " They were stur- 
dy, honest, soberly industrious, good citizens, who were not sloth- 
ful in business, were prosperous, honored members of the commun- 
ity in which they lived." 

Of Eva Catherine Eichelberger we must not forget to say that 
her husband, William Nes, was first a private and then an officer 
in the War of 1812. This couple had only three children — William 
Frederick and Jefferson, who died unmarried, and Alexander Ham- 
ilton Nes, who married Eliza Billenger, and has two children, both 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY. 37 

married and having children. William J. Nes, the elder, has only- 
one son, William Hamilton Nes, while the only daughter, Leah 
Kate Nes, married William S. Warner, of Titus ville, Pa., and has 
five children living there. 

Juliana married Charles Kurtz, and resided with him in York 
until his death ; their children wje re William H. and Katherine. 
William H. Kurtz has two or three descendants living in York to- 
day. Katherine married Henry B. Sidle and moved to Minneapo- 
lis ; she has three living children there, only one of whom is mar- 
ried, Hattie, Mrs. Edward Barber. 

At Mr. Kurtz's death, his widow, Juliana Eichelberger Kurtz, 
married Jacob Emmitt. Of their two children, Jacob Emmitt, Jr., 
died without issue, while Sophia, Mrs. Wagner, is living in Minne- 
apolis and has children there living. 

Henrietta, youngest daughter of Daniel, spent her life of single 
blessedness in the city of York, among her relatives. She died 
there fifteen yeare ago at the age of eighty-three. 

Barnitz, third child and only son of Daniel Eichelberger, was 
born in 1804, married Henrietta Danner, also of York, and had 
three sons. This entire family have passed away ; but have left 
sons and daughters of their name, all living in York. That is, the 
two elder sons did, the youngest, Martin D., born in 1836, died un- 
married in 1866. His eldest brother, Edward Charles, married in 
1864, Georgianna Rebecca Earl Codwise, of Norfolk, Virginia. 
Their five children are all residing in York. Only two have mar- 
ried ; George Barnitz, Edward, and Susan Earl are living with 
their widowed mother, while the eldest daughter, Henrietta Vir- 
ginia, is married to Samuel H. Daily, of York ; and the third son, 
Charles M. Eichelberger, married Maria Elizabeth Witmer, of Ni- 
agara Falls, New York, and has a young son and daughter, Charles 
Witmer and Maria Earle. Edward Charles Eichelberger was acci- 
dentally shot by his "own familiar friend." The weapon was his 
own too, a dainty toy to be a messenger of death, a pretty revolver, 
of a kind newly patented. His friend was trying it when "puff," 
suddenly Mr. Eichelberger was shot. He did not die immediately, 
but later and by trouble caused by this wound. These brothers, 



38 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

sons of Barnitz Eichelberger, disposed of the very last of the Eich- 
elberger property, which had come to them by inheritance. For- 
tunately for the antiquity lovers, it was bought by cousins — sons 
of the daughters of Daniel, and is now owned by the Nes's or Em- 
mitt's. Frederick Augustus married Catherine Victoria Upp, of 
York, June loth, 1862. TheyJiad three children. Frederick A. 
Eichelberger died in 1881, but most of his family survive him ; his 
daughter Katie lives with her widowed mother, while the only son, 
Harry Martin, married in 1895, Laura Wolf, of Mount Wolf, York 
Co., Pa. They have two little ones, George W., born in 1897, and 
Catherine Upp, born in 1899. With this last little one, the great- 
grandchild of Barnitz, closes the line of the descendants of Daniel 
Eichelberger and his wife Susannah (?) Barnitz. 

GEORGE EICHELBERGER. 

George Eichelberger, fourth son of "Ebert Frederick," was mar- 
ried to a most beautiful woman, whose name unfortunately we can- 
not discover. He was born just on the opening of the last century, 
and is reported to have been a newspaper man, whether as editor 
or reporter we cannot say. He was engaged on a York paper, but 
about 1818 went to Baltimore and was engaged on a paper there. 
He married when quite young, and took his bride there to live ; 
they had one little son, and then came a tragedy. There was a ter- 
rible uprising of a mob, about the year 1823, ^^ Baltimore, and 
they broke into the office of the paper where George was working 
and in the uproar he was killed. It was a most terrible thing for 
that young wife with her baby boy in her arms, but such is life. 

His only son, Abraham, inherited his mother's wonderful beauty, 
for one who remembered them both, told the writer that they were 
each in their way, almost ideal perfection of physical beauty. In 
Ebert Frederick's will he leaves Abraham's share in his property 
in care of his stepfather Martin. Sad to relate, Abraham lost his 
mind. I suppose not having a father to guide him through his 
youth, and coming as he did into possession of what was for those 
days quite a fortune, from his grandfather, Abraham was led away. 
Our friend, the Rev. John Morris, D. D., tells us in a letter how he 
had played with Abraham when they were boys, how duty called 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 39 

him from York for many years, and how when he had returned he 
searched for him or news of him in vain ; how years after he had 
gone to preach at an Asylum, and in looking over the faces before 
him had recognized his boyhood's playmate, Abraham Eichelberg- 
er, sitting before him. Inquiring into the matter he was told that 
he had become so wild as to have his mind affected. Here he spent 
the last days of his life, and died while still in his early prime. 

BARNITZ EICHELBERGER. 

Barnitz Eichelberger, as his father names his fifth son in his will, 
was more often called or spoken of as Barnet. He was born on 
his father's farm just outside of York in 1779, and about 1805 he 
married Elizabeth Ebert, also of York. He bought and lived upon 
a farm about two miles away from that city, and here his children, 
Philip. Henry, Sarah, Daniel, Frederick and Susannah were born. 
But while Frederick was still a mere child and just before the birth 
of Susannah, Barnitz died, after suffering terribly with the dropsy 
for several years. Poor Mrs. Eichelberger was left with such small 
children that it took all her time to nurse the babies, but she did 
nobly, and brought up her sons to be good and loyal citizens, her 
daughters to be good and true women. As one of the descendants 
of this branch said in speaking of them : '"Our branch of men 
have been unassuming, neither politicians nor statesmen, but with 
loyal, loving hearts for home and country, have tried to uphold 
the honor of both by clean, pure and honest lives." Barnitz died 
in 1814, and his wife survived him forty-four years, a long and 
loyal widowhood, but it was with the blessing of God that she was 
spared so long for the sake of her fatherless little ones. Of her six 
children, three stayed in York, while three went West to make 
that the place of their homes and business ventures. 

The oldest son, Philip, was the only one of the sons who remain- 
ed in York. When a mere boy he was apprenticed to learn the 
hatter's trade, after which he worked with prominent firms until 
he gave up business altogether in 1862. He was a member of 
Christ Lutheran Church, and resided with his sisters until the 
time of his death, in 1877. He is buried, as are his sisters, in Pros- 
pect Hill Cemetery, at York. His sister Sarah married Abraham 



40 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Bauragartner ; they had _,na-cW14Fe« and ef»ke soon after their 
marriage Mr. Baumgartner died. His wife then returned to the 
home of her youth, where she lived many years, but died in 1895, 
outliving by many years her sister Susannah who had remained 
single, and lived at the old homestead for thirty years after the 
death of her mother, dying in 1888. 

Henry, the next son of Barnitz, learned (as did nearly all the 
boys of that day,) a trade ; he became a cooper. In 1833 he went 
to Winchester, Ohio, where he lived for fifteen years, then moved 
to Ottowa, Illinois, making the trip by wagons, such as emigrants 
used in the early days for crossing the prairies. He was married 
to Harriet Lowe, of Baltimore, Md., who bore him seven children 
and died in 1876. Henry, like so many of our race who moved to 
the West in those days, was compelled to give up the church in 
which he was raised, for at that time there were hardly any Eng- 
lish Lutheran churches in the West or South ; hence many of them 
were almost forced to join other churches. Henry Eichelberger 
became a member of the Methodist Church, At the time of his 
death he was living with his daughter, Mrs. Gilman. He is buried 
in the Ottawa Avenue Cemetery. Of his children his oldest daugh- 
ter, Emily, married Washington Lloyd, who soon thereafter died ; 
she afterwards married William Presbry. She died at Orange 
Grove, Florida, in 1896. Harriet, next daughter, married John 
Gilman ; they are both living and reside at Ottawa, Illinois. 
Mary, third daughter, married Albert Honej', and lives in Tacoma, 
Washington. Henrietta is the wife of Frank Hackney, and they 
make their home in Chicago, Illinois. 

Of the two sons of Henry Eichelberger, George, the elder, mar- 
ried Emma McPherson, and moved to Tacoma, Washington, where 
he died in 1889. But his first wife died long before that, and he 
married Mrs. Adelaide Roberts, and by her had two children, 
both born at Ottawa, Ralph and Edna. Henry's other son mar- 
ried Mary Smith and has a delightful home at Ravens wood, Illin- 
ois. They had three bright children, but two died, Roy S. in 
1887, and Evelyn in 1879. Their only living child is Henry, Jr., 
aged 22 years. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 4I 

Daniel Eichelberger, third son of Bai^nitz and Elizabeth, was 
born in 181 1, that year fraught with import to so many of our 
name ; more of the race were born, married and died during that 
year than any other one year since 1693. Daniel learned the tail- 
or's trade and worked at it in both York and Baltimore. In 1839 
he moved to Ottawa, Illinois, where he engaged in that business. 
Later he engaged in the dry- goods trade, but ill health soon com- 
pelled that to be given up, when he became interested in the lum- 
ber business and continued in that until he retired entirely from 
business. In 1845 he married Mary H. Hosford, of North Thetford, 
Vermont ; they had four daughters. Daniel was an active mem- 
ber of the first Methodist Church, of Ottawa. He died in 1891 and 
lies near his brother Henry. His daughters, Mary Elizabeth, Sa- 
rah A., Fannie M., and Georgianna, all reside in Ottawa. They 
with their widowed mother have a sweet, pleasant home together. 

None of these daughters have ever cared to leave that home for 
another, but living there together do all the good they can, are 
devoted to their church, and moreover are faithful and well-inform- 
ed "Daughters of the Revolution," of which delightful association 
all female descendants of Martin Eichelberger can easily become 
members. 

Frederick C. Eichelberger, Jr., (for he bore the same name as 
bis grandfather,) was the fourth son of Barnitz, and was born in 
1813, at the farm then owned by his father. Like his brothers he 
was early taught a trade, his was carpentering. He went to Illi- 
nois in 1837, and married Eliza Rumple, of South Ottawa, in 1845 ; 
they had four sons and four daughters. This family were members 
of the Baptist Church, and Frederick was a very active member, 
holding several important offices therein. At the time of his death 
he was the oldest resident member of that church in Ottawa. He 
died at his home near Grand Ridge, 111., in 1879, ^"<^ is buried in 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, of that place. Of his 
daughters, Ellen A., the first, married William Lewis, and lives in 
Grand Rapids, Mich. The next one, Susan E., is the wife of Wil- 
liam Trumbo, and lives in Marseilles, 111., while Louisa M., became 



42 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Mrs. William Milligan, and has her home in Ottawa. Frances I. 
married Charles Poundstone, and resides in St. Louis, Mo. 

The sons of Frederick are : John II., married to Mary Miller and 
having his home in Harvey, 111. He has two children, Frederick 
M. and Pearl R., just entering upon the brightest of manhood and 
womanhood. William Barnitz, who lives in Ottawa, was married 
in 1881 to Ella Sesslar, by whom he has two children, Charles C. 
and Susie E., aged respectively nine and eighteen years. To this 
young man, and to his cousin Ralph, belongs the responsibility of 
carrying the name of Eichelberger well and worthily in their part 
of the State, for I believe they are the only ones of their generation 
and sex in Ottawa. 

Frederick M., the youngest son of Frederick, has the honor of 
being fourth of his name, Frederick Eichelberger, right in his own 
branch. I would not like to undertake to say how many there are 
of that name in the family. This one lives at Grand Ridge, 111., 
with his wife, Alice Butterfield, who has borne him two children, 
only one of them now living, Leola E. 

This is the story of these descendants of Barnitz and Elizabeth 
Ebert Eichelberger. 

WILLIAM EICHELBERGER. 

William, the sixth son of "Ebert Frederick," was born in the 
year 1782, on the farm of his father near York. He was fast be- 
coming marked for bachelorhood when the charms of the pretty 
daughter of the minister who was then preaching at the German 
Reformed Church, in York, proved too much for his aforetime un- 
susceptible heart. They were married about 1809, and in 1810 
their firstborn, Frederick Augustus, or Augustus Frederick, (au- 
thorities differ which was his name,) came to them. George, Ma- 
ria and Elenora followed him. These were all born on a farm which 
his father gave to William at the time of his marriage. This Fred- 
erick seems to have been a large landholder indeed, for he present- 
ed five of his seven sons with farms upon the date of their mar- 
riage. Truly, a generous and fatherly act. William, as well as his 
brother, was much interested in the building of turnpikes around 
York ; they both were members of a committee to see about rais- 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY, 43 

ing necessary funds to build them, and were afterwards appointed 
Road Commissioners. Like his brothers, William was a good and 
loyal citizen, a plain man but had many friends. His son, August- 
us Frederick, lived and married in York, for William died when 
just in his prime and this son took the farm. He married Caroline 
Day, by whom he had six children ; only two of these being sons, 
Charles Augustus, who died when a little over two years of age ; 
and William Kurtz, who is now a bachelor, residing with his sister, 
Mrs. Wiest. This family are Yorkers ; those whom death has 
spared are living in York, while the rest have their ashes reposing 
in the York Cemetery. 

The oldest daughter, Jane Elizabeth, married Daniel Smyser, a 
farmer who owned a large farm just outside of York ; they had 
six children ; the mother died in 1882. Maria Elenora, the next 
daughter, was married to Charles Spangler, a merchant ; they had 
three children, one is married. Of the four daughters of Augustus 
Frederick, the third is or was, I believe, the best known of all ; 
Catherine, or Miss Kate, as nearly every one who knew her called 
her, was for many years a teacher. She taught in the Grammar 
Schools in York for thirty years, and before that in Hanover and 
other places. She died last Spring, and in a little notice I saw of 
her death, she was spoken of as being a remarkably fine teacher, as 
also a perfect lady, in the schoolroom or out. Emma Margaret, 
next daughter, was born in 1848 and died in 1867, only a girl, taken 
just at the time to be so greatly missed. The youngest daughter, 
Alice Irene, was, in 1875 married to Edward F. Wiest, a merchant 
of York ; they are childless. 

George, the second son of William and Margaretta Augusta, mar- 
ried a lady from Baltimore, Mary McKenzie ; they had no children, 
and as he and Frederick Augustus were the only sons of William, 
you can see that William has no representatives at all, of the fam- 
ily name, in this generation. Maria Eichelberger, daughter of 
William, became the wife of Peter Loucks, a prominent citizen of 
York. Four sons and one daughter came to the Loucks home ; of 
these, the daughter, Mary M., died in 1877, and the sons, Peter 
and Franklin in 1880 and 1900, respectively. So only the two 



44 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

sons, Casper, of whom we know nothing, and Augustus, are left. 
This latter has been an Alderman of his home city for many years, 
and has done much to keep his name in fair repute and usefulness 
in York. 

Elenora, the youngest child of William, died while but a child. 
Mourned at the time, but alas ! how soon are we forgotten ! 

CHARLES EICHELBERGER. 

Charles Eichelberger was that old-time marvel, a seventh son, 
but as he had only one son the superstition was not carried out, 
even if the family would have done it. But there is a pathetic 
little story connected with him. He was very anxious to emigrate 
to the West when quite a young man, but as he was his father's 
youngest son, although he had so set his heart upon the going, 
Frederick denied him, or rather delayed giving his permission and 
probably something more substantial than the mere permission, 
from year to year. Finally, Charles married Elizabeth Nace, of 
York, and confided to her his anxiety to move West, and she prom- 
ised him that when he was ready to go, she would go with him. 
Soon a little girl came to them, but just before her advent, which 
shows that Frederick was not unkind in his refusal to let them go, 
only that his heart was yearning to keep his youngest with him, 
he gave them a nice farm just a little way out of York. One after 
another, three more little girls were born to them, but the father's 
heart still longed for pastures new — Ohio seemed to be the goal of 
his longings. But the old father, Frederick, could not give them 
up. Finally, in 1824, ^^^ old father died, and Charles was free to 
consider no inclinations but his own. The farm was sold, every- 
thing was made ready and away they moved. At last ! One can- 
not but wonder if everything came up to the expectations of him 
who had so long yearned for the sight of these Ohio vales and 
fields. At any rate, they made them a home in the chosen coun- 
try, on a farm quite close to Wooster. Here, in the new home, a 
son, the first, was born to them. How natural to name him after 
this so long promised land ! There were other names dear to the 
hearts of both parents, but first the boy must be named for the 
chosen State ; no thought or at least no care for the peculiarity of 



THE EICHELBEEGER FAMILY. 45 

the name — little Ohio George Walter Eichelberger was soon so 
christened. Charles was a happy man 'for sixteen years ; in 1847 
he died, his wife surviving him twenty-one years. He is buried 
at New Pittsburg, Wayne County, Ohio, and his wife at Edgerton, 
in the same State. 

But the last of the story is not yet told. The little son grew to 
manhood and married Kate Miller, of Reedsburg. Ohio. She soon 
died and later be was united to Arneal Spangler, of Edgerton, 
Ohio. By neither wife did he have any children. He moved out 
to Idaho, wrote me from there, and indeed he became pretty well 
acquainted with the Western States. Lately, wishing to know 
more of him, I wrote to Idaho. The letter was returned, with this 
written upon it — "Returned to Ohio, where he died." And it was 
true. Friends have written since saying that he had been living 
in Pocatello, Idaho, was taken ill and wishing to go back home to 
Ohio, was taken there, where he died Oct. 29th, 1899. His last 
wife survives him. 

Of the three daughters of Charles and Elizabeth who married, 
the eldest became Mrs. John J. Hartman, and had three children. 
Mr. Hartman is dead, but his widow is still living, aged 80 years. 
Jane, the next daughter, married Joseph Coder, of New Pittsburg, 
Ohio ; to them were born nine children, only four of whom are 
now living. Amelia Eichelberger was married to Daniel Beckley, 
also of Ohio, he died more than forty years ago, leaving but one 
child and his widow to survive him. Mrs. Beckley and the only 
daughter of Charles, who did not marry, Elizabeth, live together 
now in Edgerton, Ohio. These daughters all three, have descend- 
ants living around them, the descendants in the third and fourth 
generations of Charles and Elizabeth Eichelberger. 

SARAH EICHELBERGER. 
Sarah Eichelberger, the only daughter and youngest child of 
Frederick Christian and his wife Eva, married a Mr. Lutman, of 
York, Pa. She had four children, — Levi, who lived a bachelor; 
Aaron, of whom we can discover nothing, but do not think that he 
ever married ; Charlotte, who married Thomas Jameson, and rais- 



^6 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

ed quite a little family ; and Jane, who married George Carmen, a 
politician of some note in his native town of York, and where they 
now have descendants living. 

This closes the line of the descendants of Frederick, the second 
son of Martin Eichelberger. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 

Jacob, the third son of Martin, was a man of note during the 
time of the Revolutionary War. He was one of those who stayed 
at home and let his good deeds speak for him. He gave largely, 
and contributed also of his time and talents to the great cause ; in- 
deed, he was an indefatigable worker in his country's behalf, not 
only giving himself, but collecting funds for the benefit of the suf- 
ferers through the war. He too was on the Committee of Safety. 
Once the writer met a party who well remembered him. and when 
asking for a description of him was told, that he always "was an 
exemplary Christian gentleman." He was a most devoted mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church. He filled many positions of trust in 
his town and country. It seems with Jacob as with his next 
brother, Bernard, almost a pity that he left no descendants to in- 
herit his many virtues, as well as to glory in his record during the 
War of the Revolution. 

Jacob married a Miss Beard, who bore him one son, Peter ; but 
this little fellow only lived to see two short summers pass over his 
head, then left for a better world. The last years of his life Jacob 
and his wife lived at Reisterstown, Md., where they both are bur- 
ied. They had adopted a son to their old age, one Augustus Miller, 
from their home which was at that time Baltimore, and to him 
Jacob left all his very considerable property, upon his death in 1832, 
he being 89 years old ; his wife died years before. 

BERNARD EICHELBERGER. 

Of the entire family of Martin Eichelberger, there is but one who 
can compete with this next son in his record as a soldier during the 
Revolution. Bernard was born in 1746, hence was but a young 
fellow when the call for troops was sounded, but old enough to be 
able to obtain his parent's consent to his going. As soon as he 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY. 47 

reached manhood his services belonged to his country. In the his- 
tory of the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion we find the following : — 
"The Officers of the two York County Companies were : Captain 
David Greer, afterwards William Alexander ; First Lieutenant 
John McDowell ; Second Lieutenant Ahdiel McAllister ; Ensigns, 
William Nicholas and John Hughes. Second Company — Captain 
Moses McLean ; First Lieutenants, Barnet Eichelberger and John 
Edie ; Second Lieutenant John Hoge ; Ensign Robert Hopes. 
This Battalion greatly distinguished itself in the unfortunate 
Canadian campaign of 1776." 

Later, a new Regiment was formed by Colonel Hartley, of which 
history says : "In this new regiment of Colonel Hartley's were 
the York County Companies of Captain Archibald McAllister, Bar- 
net Eichelberger, John McClellan, Lewis Bush." Again : "Rally- 
ing the troops. Colonel Hartley had advanced with the reserve and 
bravely assisted by both officers and men, attacked the enemy 
from a thicket in a swamp to the left." His Commander says of 
this : "This hardiness of his was of the utmost consequence to us." 

Sad to relate, the only family history we have of Bernard, or 
Barnet, as the State History calls him, is the brief mention made 
of him in his father's wilL In Scharf 's History of Baltimore City 
and County, we find honorable mention of Barnet Eichelberger, in 
chapter 9, page 69, in the article on the War of Independence. 
*'0n the i2th of November, 1774, a meeting was held in the Court 
House, of Baltimore, to select a Committee to inforce the carrying 
out of resolutions made by Congress. Barnet Eichelberger was 
chosen to be one of that Committee." The committee drew up 
resolutions calling on the people of Maryland to lay aside all minor 
disputes, to unite in the common defence, and other things were 
decided upon, such as moneys to be contributed, etc. Then a cadet 
company was formed ; the people were notified that they must 
have uniforms, and many things must be done ; and finally the 
resolutions were signed by Barnet Eichelberger and others. He 
was certainly a man of influence in his day and generation. It 
seems too bad that we cannot tell of just one child of this noble 
patriot 



48 THE EICHELBEROER FAMILY. 

Griffin's Annals of Baltimore gives us this on page 37 : "Con- 
gress which met at Philadelphia Sept. 5th, 1774, recommended the 
appointment of Town and County Committees (to correspond with 
the neighboring Colonies, as the exigency of affairs should make 
it necessary, to make relief for the Bostonians and throughout the 
Colonies,) so the following gentlemen were chosen by citizens en- 
titled to vote, to compose the Committee for Baltimore, viz — Bar- 
net Eichelberger, John and Richard Moale, Mordecai Gist and 
other leading citizens, twenty-nine in all." 

Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore says : " Among those who ar- 
rived and carried on trade (for the Colonies) about that period, 
was Barnet Eichelberger." We also find that letters of adminis- 
tration on Barnet Eichelberger's estate were granted in 1783, thus 
making it appear that he must have died shortly before that date. 
But we could find no mention of a will, nor anything to lead us to 
suppose that he left a widow or any family. 

In the will of Martin, his father, we find : "My son Barnet to 
have equal share thereof," several times ; but no mention is made 
of his having a wife or any children. 

MARTIN EICHELBERGER, Jr. 
Martin, Jr., the youngest son of Martin and Anna Maria Eichel- 
berger, enthused with longings to strike for America's freedom, 
became thrilled with patriotic ardor long before his parents con- 
sidered him aught but a mere lad. He plead with them for many 
months that he might go with the regiments then leaving for the 
seat of war, but unavailingly. The whole story of his patriotism 
and its results, is given in the biographical obituary, taken from 
the Baltimore Patriot of October 15th, 1840, as follows : 

Biographical Obituary of Marlin Eichelberger. 

The newspapers of this city have announced that Martin Eichelber- 
ger, for about 45 years VVeighmastcr of the Port of Baltimore, depart- 
ed this life on the 2d of October inst., in the 82d year of his age. 

It is painful to see, if not the last, nearly the very last of the officers 
of the Revolutionary War descend to the tomb without some notice of 
his services in the achievement of our independence and liberty. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 49 

Mr. Eichelberger was the son of one of the most respectable and in- 
fluential citizens of York, Pennsylvania ; where he was born January 
7th, 1759. In 1776, at the early age of 17I years, he entered the Amer- 
ican Army. Such was his ardor in the cause of his country that being 
unable to obtain the consent of his family to that step, he privately 
left his home at midnight, went to the stable of an uncle living near 
town, took one of his horses, and travelled to Boston to join the 
troops. He immediately received a commission as Lieutenant in 
Captain Nicholas' Company, attached to the regiment commanded by 
the late Colonel Thomas Hartley, of York. He was present at the 
battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Paoli, — significantly called 
the Massacre of Paoli, inasmuch as the troops then commanded by 
General Wayne were taken by surprise in the night, and put to the 
sword, without mercy. 

Captain Nicholas being transferred to the commissariat department, 
the command of the company devolved on Lieutenant Eichelberger, 
who was then ordered wnth the regiment to the western frontier of 
Pennsylvania, then about Wyoming, to protect the inhabitants from 
the Indians. In this service engaged in frequent skirmishes he re- 
mained, until about the time of the negotiations which ended in the 
treaty of 1783, when at the earnest request of an affectionate father, 
then lying very ill, he resigned his commission, soon after his appoint- 
ment as Captain. 

In consideration of his services and exemplary character, Mr. Eich- 
elberger was appointed Weighmaster of the Port of Baltimore, imme- 
diately after the organization of the Federal Government. 

His contemporary officers then in the Custom House, were Col. 
Otho Williams, Collector ; Colonel N. Ramsay, Naval Officer ; Capt. 
Robert Ballard, Surveyor, with other subordinate officers of the Revo- 
lutionary Army, all of whom he survived many years until full of 
years, time has numbered him also with the mighty dead. 

In all the relations of life, as a husband, father, friend, neighbor and 
master, in benevolence and moral purity of character, he commanded 
the highest esteem and affection. Blessed with an excellent constitu- 
tion, fortified by habits of temperance and regularity, he enjoyed al- 
most uninterrupted health and died without a struggle. W. 

May loth. 1881, Martin Eichelberger, Jr., married Elizabeth 
Welsh, who was the eldest daughter of Jacob Welsh, who after 
serving in the War of 1776, became a merchant in Baltimore, and 
was a prominent man in that city until the time of his death. Mar- 
tin Eichelberger was a stately, handsome man, and his wife was 



50 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

noted for her personal beauty, and they are spoken of as having 
been a remarkably handsome couple. They had a family of eleven 
children. — Jesse, Eliza, Maria, Juliana, Otho Martin, Louis, Wil- 
liam Otterbein, Elenora Sophia, Amelia Augusta, Otho Welsh, and 
Henrietta Matilda. Of these, Otho Martin and Amelia Augusta 
died in early childhood. 

JESSE EICHELBERGER. 
Jesse, the eldest of this family, never married, nor did any of his 
brothers; but he as well as Louis and William Otterbein, was 
prominent in the defense of Baltimore, in 1814, at the battle of 
Fort McHenry. Jesse was appointed First Lieutenant of the Bal- 
timore Fencibles, the First Regiment of Artillery of the Maryland 
Militia. After serving bravely and well in this war, Jesse became 
a highly respected and influential citizen of Baltimore. He inter- 
ested himself greatly in the formation of that now flourishing Ger- 
man Society and was elected first President of the same. He en- 
tered into a business life, but died before reaching old age. 

LOUIS AND WILLIAM O. EICHELBERGER. 

Louis and William O. were ' privates in the regiment of which 
their brother was lieutenant, this company being composed mainly 
of the flower of the youth of Maryland, and known for the bravery 
and valor of both officers and men. Louis was a lawyer and a suc- 
cessful one, but unfortunately lived to practise but a few years, 
dying while yet in manhood's prime. 

William Otterbein, the next son who survived to years of man- 
hood, became a leading merchant, but never married. He died in 
January, 1879. 

OTHO WELSH EICHELBERGER. 

Otho Welsh, the youngest son, also was a merchant in the city 
of his birth ; he entered Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, 
but was recalled in 1819, to enter the service of McDonald & Ridge- 
ly, a wholesale firm, located at that time on South Howard Street, 
Baltimore. Here he remained many years, finally becoming sole 
proprietor. He lived to a far greater age than any of his brothers, 
hence was better known to the world at large ; he was regarded 



THE EICEELBERGER FAMILY. 5I 

as one of the leading merchants of Baltimore, greatly respected 
and esteemed for his business integrity and honor. So well was 
his reputation known for strictly dealing in the best the market 
afforded, for having goods honestly and honorably advertised, that 
after his death, the old signs from his warehouse were bought and 
used by other business houses, as a notice to the public that their 
goods were on the same scale. He died in 1879, leaving only one 
sister to survive him. 

DAUGHTERS OF MARTIN, Jr. 

Of the daughters of Martin, Jr. and Elizabeth, only the two elder 
married. After the death of Martin, his widow lived with her sons 
and three younger daughters ; she survived him fifteen years, 
being at the time of her death in her ninety-third year. Before 
and after the death of Martin, she made their home noted for its 
gracious hospitality. She was, as I have remarked, a very beauti- 
ful woman, and her vitality was wonderful. By her happy manner 
she succeeded in making her home exceedingly attractive, both to 
her family and their friends. 

Her daughter Juliana died but two years before her mother, in 
February, 1853, while Henrietta Matilda survived her twenty-one 
years and Elenora Sophia twenty-five years. 

ELIZA EICHELBERGER RIDGELY. 
The eldest daughter of Martin, Eliza, married in 1801, Nicholas 
G. Ridgely, a business man of Baltimore, who bade fair to become 
one of the most promising young business men of that city, had he 
not died while still young. His widow survived him but a short 
time, dying February, 1803, leaving one child, Eliza Eichelberger 
Ridgely, who afterward married John Ridgely, of Hampton, Md. 
They had five children, but two of whom reached maturity, Eliza 
and Charles. Eliza Ridgely first married John Campbell White, 
by whom she had three sons, two of whom lived to manhood, and 
have since distinguished themselves, and become most import- 
ant citizens of their day. Henry White, the eldest, married Mar- 
garet Stuyvesant Rutherford, by whom he has two children, now 
just approaching manhood and womanhood. Henry White is now 



gjj THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Secretary of our Legation, at London, England, and is quite a dis- 
tinguished diplomat. His brother, Julian LeRoy, married Sophia l 
Elizabeth Beylard, of Normandy, France. They have no children, 
Possessing large wealth and being a man of liberal education, Ju- 
lian LeRoy White is deeply interested in charitable and social prob- 
lems, while he and his wife are ever ready to respond to any char- 
itable call. lie has recently built and endowed a handsome Epis- 
copal Church, in Baltimore, as a. Mission of St. Luke's. The 
grounds are sufficiently spacious to accommodate a parish house, 
rectory, and other buildings. 

John Campbell White died in 1853, and twelve years later his 
widow married Thomas H. Buckler, a distinguished physician of 
Baltimore. One son was born of this marriage, William Hepburn 
Buckler, a graduate of Oxford, England, and a prominent member 
of the Baltimore bar. He is married and has had two children. 

Charles, the only son of Eliza Eichelberger Ridgely and John 
Ridgely, who lived to manhood, became connected by marriage 
with that Howard family who are distinguished by being descend 
ants of General John Eager Howard, he of whom General Nathan 
iel Green, (himself considered second only to the immortal Wash 
ington,) said : "He deserves a statue of gold no less than the Ro- 
man and Grecian heroes." Margaret Sophia Howard became the 
wife of Charles Ridgely in 1851 ; she bore him eight children. Of 
these, three are married and three daughters are now residing with 
their parents in Baltimore. The mother of this family is a lady of 
grace and culture, the father a gentleman of especial erudition. 
Their several grandchildren promise to become worthyof such ances 
try. The father of John Ridgely, he who married Eliza Eichelberger 
Ridgely, granddaughter of Martin Eichelberger, was rightly called 
Charles Ridgely Carnan, his mother who had married a Mr. Car 
nan, having been a Miss Ridgely, and a sister of Charles Ridgely, 
of Hampton. This last-named gentleman had no heirs other than 
his nephew, and wishing to keep his estate in the family name, he 
requested that he change his name to Ridgely. upon coming into 
the property. Accordingly in 1790, Charles R. Carnan secured 
permission, by an Act of the Legislature, to take the name of 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 53 

Charles Ridgely, of Hampton. This was done before the birth of 
his son, who then became John Ridgely, of Hampton, Maryland. 

Thus the descendants of Eliza Eichelberger, eldest daughter of 
Martin, the patriot. 

MAEIA EICHELBERGER 

Maria, next daughter, in 1810, married John Clemm, who became 
for the defense of Baltimore, Sergeant of Artillery in the United 
States Army, and fought in the Battle of Fort McHenry ; Sept. 14, 
1814, he was killed by the bursting of a shell. His name is in- 
scribed, with the other heroes of that battle, on the Battle Monu- 
ment, at Baltimore. Before this war, two children had been born 
to them, Elizabeth, who died young, and Johanna. The latter 
married Daniel B. Ridgely, Commodore in the United States Navy. 
Mrs. Ridgely did not live long after the birth of her only son, 
Nicholas D. Ridgely. This gentleman is now a physician of great 
ability, practicing in Baltimore, is married and has a family of 
children. 

These are the descendants of Martin, whom we call the patriot, 
to distinguish him from the other Martins, all of whom took pride 
and interest in the Revolution of 1776. It seems a great pity, tak- 
ing into account the fine, manly character, as well as good looks of 
Martin, that he left no descendants of the Eichelberger name to 
perpetuate his virtues in the family. 

DAUGHTERS OF MARTIN EICHELBERGER, Sr. 
The only daughters of Martin Eichelberger, Sr. and his wife An- 
na Maria, were Mary, Lydia and Susannah. Mary, the eldest was 
born in 1749, and when but twenty years of age she married Wil- 
liam T. Coale, by whom she had several children. We have been 
unable to find their names or indeed any trace of them ; in fact it 
would seem hard to believe there was any such person as this Mary 
Eichelberger, did we not read of her in her father's will as married 
to William T. Coale, and of the share of his property that said 
Mary and William were to inherit. Among all the stacks of old 
papers which we have, it seemed that we must find something 
about her, but the only thing that we came across was an old letter 



54 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

of hers, written to her uncle, one of the executors of her father's 
will, in which she says that he is not to send any more of her 
money down to them, that she is coming up soon and wishes to get 
it herself, as she has a certain use to which she wishes to put it. 
To read this old letter from this wife and mother, dead these many 
years, is to turn over the leaves of the past, most truly. It seems 
almost like sacrilege, poor soul ! yet there was nothing in it to ex- 
cite our sympathies. 

Lydia, the second daughter born to Martin, died in 1754, while 
still quite young, so never married. 

Susannah, youngest daughter, born in 1756, did not marry as 
young as was common for girls at that time ; but when about 
twenty-four married Daniel Barnitz, of Hanover. They had a 
large family. Jacob their first son, married Mary Etzler and had 
quite a family. But right here I must say that there are diversi- 
ties of opinion as to these children. Daniel Barnitz married twice 
and had two sets of children, and it was hard to find anyone who 
could tell with exactness just which children were born of each 
marriage. Finally an obliging fellow townsman, who was himself 
a descendant of the Barnitz family, allowed us the satisfaction of 
getting positive information from a little book which is written by 
the hand of this Daniel Barnitz himself, all in German, the names 
and dates of the births of his and Susannah Eichelberger's children. 
Also, giving the date and hour of her death. It was a great satis- 
faction, and our thanks are due Mr. Barnitz for it. 

Jacob, the eldest son, married Mary Etzler ; George, a Miss Mc- 
Clintock, of Chambersburg, Pa. ; Charles, Rebecca Swope, of Get- 
tysburg ; Daniel married twice, first a Miss Judy, then Elizabeth 
Forney, of Hanover ; John, also married twice, first Elizabeth 
Scholl, and then Maria Bentley. Susannah had three daughters 
who did not marry,— Deborah, who died an infant ; Lovina, who 
only lived twelve summers ; and the mother's namesake, Susan- 
nah, who died when just eighteen. William, the third son, was 
the only one of their sons who stayed single. Elizabeth Barnitz 
married Charles Young ; Helen Catherine, George Himes ; while 
the youngest child, Michael Barnitz, married a granddaughter of 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 55 

his mother's uncle Jacob, Eliza Eichelberger, of Hanover, All of 
these children, who did marry, have descendants living today, but 
the task of giving the lineage has been relegated to the editor of 
the jparnitz book, which family record, I think has been already 
published. 

Thus the family history of Martin and Anna Maria Eichelberger, 
he who was the oldest child of the emigrant ; who came to this 
country while still so young, but who himself and whose children 
played such important parts in the Revolutionary history of their 
State and country. 



John Frederick Eichelberger. 



In starting on the line of this, the second son of the emigrant, I 
would like to call attention to the different Fredericks Eichelberg- 
er of the first and second generations, and to explain how they may 
be kept separate, and not become so confused in your minds that 
this will all be a tangle to you. Philip Frederick, after coming to 
America, took the name of Frederick almost entirely. But he can 
be kept apart from the others if you will remember that he was the 
Frederick who received the grant of land from the Penns, in Man- 
heim Township, York County, Pa. His son Frederick emigrated 
to Maryland, down near Hagerstown. That is this Frederick who 
was christened John Frederick, in Germany. Frederick who set- 
tled near York, where he has descendants living now, was the son 
of Martin, and was christened Frederick Christian. Then Freder- 
ick, who had the grant of land made to him in Maryland, said 
grant having been first given in 1799, is Frederick, son of Adam, 
the captain in the Revolution. The Frederick near York can also 
be distinguished as having been known as "Ebert Frederick," or 
"Cappy Fritz," while the son of Adam may be told from the others 
by being called "Owen's Creek Frederick," Owen's Creek being a 



56 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

stream of water flowing through his farm, and near which several 
of his descendants live to-day. 

John Frederick Eichelberger, second son of our ancestor, Philip 
Frederick, was born at the home in Ittlingen, Germany, Febr-uary 
i8th, 1722, consequently he was only six years of age when his 
parents turned their faces toward their chosen home. Though but 
a mere child when their mother died, he, like his brother Martin, 
became of great assistance to his father, and although born in Ger- 
many, he soon imbibed the spirit of American patriotism. Until 
he was about twenty-three he lived near York, Pa., after which he 
made his home near Hageratown, in Maryland. He was a Justice 
of the Peace during the Revolution. It was his horse no doubt 
that younger Martin, his nephew, took as he rode to Boston to join 
the Continental Army there. In his early manhood he was mar- 
ried to Anna Maria Kintz, who bore him two children -John and 
Jacob. Frederick Eichelberger, this Frederick — was one of those 
who are spoken of in the early history of Maryland, as being one 
of its most upright citizens, and as giving to and working for the 
cause of America's freedom. He was a devout Lutheran and one 
of the first to help institute a church of that denomination in his 
neighborhood. He was very generous during the Revolution, giv- 
ing largely in money, and also in grain, for the use of the army. 
He, like most of his name, became a large large landholder. He 
was also a very handsome man, large and fine looking. In this 
day he has descendants, as you will see, pretty well scattered over 
these United States, although only one of his sons married. This 
Frederick was considered by his family to be very adventurous in 
moving so far from all of them and going down near Hagerstown, 
Maryland. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 

His oldest son Jacob, much such a man as his father, never mar- 
ried, but became quite a man of affairs in the community in which 
he lived. He was a merchant, and was one of those who so well 
oiled the wheels of this new State that in peace or war she rides 
triumphant. He spent the latter part of his life in Baltimore. He 



THE EICHELEERGER FAMILY. 57 

was about sixty years old at the time of his death, in 1803. We 
are not able to locate the burial places of either Frederick, the fa- 
ther, or Jacob, the son. We were told that they were buried, the 
first in or near Hagerstown, the second in Baltimore ; but it was 
impossible to locate their graves. 

JOHN EICHELEERGER. 

John, the second son of this Frederick, was a soldier during the 
Revolution ; he was a private in Colonel Samuel Niles's Rifle Regi- /Lj, 
ment of Maryland Volunteers. He was promoted, and made a /»^^^ 
corporal for bravery in battle. First, he belonged to a regiment of A, , 
Free Lancers who chose their own captain, whose name is not given 
in history. These young patriots took upon themselves the duty 
of skirmishers, and annoyed the British very much. It was later 
when he joined Col. Niles's regiment, in which he participated in 
many battles, in one of which he was wounded. 

At the close of the war, John Eichelberger came back to his 
home, and soon thereafter married Mary Leonard, a daughter of 
Michael Leonard, of Reading, Pa. John and his wife then took 
possession of his father's homestead in Maryland, his mother hav- 
ing died while he was in the army. They were married about 1780 
and in 1783 two events took place which greatly changed affairs 
for them. In the beginning of the year Frederick died and left 
them the home for their own, and in the latter part of the same 
year their son John was born. Then their little family soon grew, 
Jacob, Peter, Henry, Mary Ann and Catherine, following in due 
succession. 

Of these two daughters, Catherine stayed as did her descendants 
near the old home place. In 1816, she married Adam Kinkle, and 
their grandson, H. Culler Tice, of Frederick, Md., has the Bible 
which recorded the birth of his grandmother and her brothers and 
sisters. A quaint old Bible this -with the record in the handwrit- 
ing of John Frederick, the Revolutionary soldier. Here is record- 
ed the marriage, here the births of his children. Ah ! had he but 
recorded there his own experience during the War of the Revolu- 
tion, what reading that would have made, very like that of a sec- 



gg THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY, 

ond Richard Carvel in his record in the Navy ; only our writer's 
personal experience would have been in the Array, of course. He 
had a large grain mill and plantation near Martinsburg. He died 
there, or near there, in his seventy-fifth year, his wife having gone 
before him, a matter of two or three years. 

JOHN EICHELBERGER, Jr. 

Of their sons, we give the line of John, the eldest, first. He was 
born in 1783, and married in the year 1803, Catherine Zimmerman. 
This family of German Marylanders, so many of whom intermar- 
ried with those of our name, were descended from John, the great- 
grandfather of this Catherine, who had obtained from George III. 
of England, a grant of land comprising 1,000 acres. 

And right here we would like to speak of these grants ; there 
are rumors afloat in the family concerning these royal grants, 
which are very wide off the mark. The Georges, II. and III., were 
both very anxious to make these lands, which had cost their coun- 
try so dear, pay for themselves as well as possible. They were 
populated only with Indians who could not be taxed. So they 
caused proclamations to be published, that for a mere song, they 
would give royal grants of large tracts of land in America, to 
whomsoever would be willing to make a home and cultivate the 
land thereof. This did not tempt so many of their own country- 
men as they had hoped ; the most of the English who were willing 
to leave home and friends at that time, of the first publication, 
were those who did it that they might have freedom of worship in 
the churches. 

But the Kings of England were very anxious, and actually 
needed to make those distant lands bring in something, so they 
extended the offer to residents of other countries, and the Germans 
were, at that time, suffering from oppression from their rulers, as 
they had of late had many wars to carry on, and their people were 
heavily taxed, too heavily for a man of small means to be able to 
support his family. Hence it was that this offer of lands, almost 
free, in America, was so tempting. And this explains the reason 
of our ancestors, many of them, having received royal grants from 



THE EICEELBERGER FAMILY. 59 

one of the Kings of England, not from any cause of relationship, 
or any other, save only the offer that was made to all men alike, 
all men who were willing to come over here and settle, and culti- 
vate this land and build homes, in other words become taxable 
subjects of England's King. History does give us several in- 
stances when these Kings did give large tracts in America, to a 
subject, but always for some particular reason, and each one is re- 
corded in the history of the time, and generally the reason for the 
gift is given. As in the case of William Penn ; he had advanced 
so much of his fortune to the King that he was obliged to repay 
him in some way. 

But after the most careful search among the old records and 
histories at my command, I cannot find the name of any Eichel- 
berger, nor any one who has intermarried with the Eichelbergers, 
to whom such a gift was made. And very well pleased was I to 
have it so, for such gifts were usually made with or for a purpose, 
and those purposes were not always such as to be proud of. In- 
deed so often was I told that this or that grant was made to this or 
that ancestor, once for relationship, again for valor, and yet again 
for another reason, that 1 made a special study of these grants, the 
manner in which they were written and recorded, and they es- 
pecially and particularly say, that according to such a proclama- 
tion " this grant is made by the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, so 
many acres for so much, they acting under orders of George the 
so-and-so." Also have I consulted authorities, have asked those 
of the race who are in a position to know, or can easily ascertain, 
and they assure me that the grants were all given to our ancestors 
for such a sum of money and according to such a royal proclama- 
tion. 

And who would not rather belong to a quiet, respectable. God- 
fearing, industrious race of loyal men and pure women, who won 
their bread by the sv/eat of their brow, than to have descended 
from one of the corrupt and dissolute members of the Court of one 
of the George's? Such an honorable grant had John Zimmerman 
received, and he has descendants living on some of that very land 
to-day. 



6o THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

John Eichelherger, the son of John, of Revolutionary fame, 
moved after his marriage to a farm, near Hagerstown, Washington 
County, Md. He ran a hirge grain mill as well, and here his eight 
children were born ; they were named, Henrietta, Samuel, Wil- 
liam, Daniel, Henry, Joseph, Susan, and John Thomas. With this 
mill John had a large business connection. They ground barrels 
of flour there, and hauled them in old fashioned Pennsylvania wa- 
gons to Baltimore and Pennsylvania, over thirty barrels at a load. 
His children attended school at Antietam, and the oldest son now 
living, tells us of having to attend school from a distance of two 
or three miles, and says that in winter the snow would be frozen 
over so deep and so hard that he could easily walk on the top of 
the crust. That was in Maryland, in 1822. In 1824 John, with 
his wife and children, emigrated to Ohio ; they left Hagerstown 
in a large wagon, with five horses, and were eight weeks in going 
from Hagerstown to Germantown, Ohio. There were no bridges 
and the roads were very heavy. They found the country around 
Germantown comparatively wooded. John bought a farm near 
there of 75 cleared acres, and having a fine orchard of the most de- 
licious fruit. In that day, this same son goes on to tell us, every- 
thing of farm production was very cheap, but money was exceed- 
ingly scarce, and dry-goods and clothing, and household goods 
were very hard to obtain. They raised flax, made their Summer 
clothing, and sheared and wove sheep's wool for Winter wear. 
Their house, the nicest in their neighborhood, was a two-story log 
cabin. The children went to a little log schoolhouse in winter. 
The country abounded in wild game of all sorts ; squirrels were so 
thick they could knock them off" the fences with clubs. John 
Eichelherger died in Ohio in 1847 > ^^is widow lived to her 63d year. 
Of their children, Henrietta, the eldest, married Benjamin Da- 
vidson ; they had five children. Mr. Davidson soon died, and 
Henrietta married again, a man by the name of Hall ; they had 
one son who is now living in Findley, Ohio. Orin Davidson, son 
of Benjamin and Henrietta, lived in Dayton, a great many years, 
and raised a large family, most of whom are still living in or about 
Dayton. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 6l 

SAMUEL EICHELBERGEE. 
, Samuel Eichelberger, first son of John and Catherine, born in 
Washington County, Md., was married to Eliza Dever and raised 
a large family. Two sons reside in Chicago, George W., the eldest, 
who married Mattie E, Jack, and has no children, and the third 
son, Wilson S., who is also married but childless. Luther Eichel- 
berger, second son of Samuel and Eliza, was a soldier in the Civil 
War, but it was impossible for us to obtain his army record. He 
is single, and lives at the National Military Home, at Dayton, Ohio. 
Samuel, the youngest brother, lives in Dayton also ; he is engaged 
in business, but has never married, Samuel, Sr,, the father of this 
family, was engaged in milling most of his life ; he died in 1872, 
his widow afterwards marrying a Mr. Booher, but died in Febru- 
ary, 1900. 

WILLIAM EICHELBERGER. 
William, second son of John and Catherine, married Sarah Con- 
way. He spent most of his life in Dayton, and at one time oper- 
ated large mills in the Miami Valley, between Dayton and Middle- 
town. His family consisted of eight children, Sarah Bell, Marietta, 
Adolphus and Norval died in childhood ; while Francis M. married 
Elizabeth Jack, but died in his 37th year, leaving his widow and 
two children surviving him, one child having died but a short 
while before. These children, John N. and Eugenia, reside in 
Dayton. Elenora Eichelberger, fifth child of William and Sarah, 
married first Jacob S. Miller, by whom she had two children, both 
of whom have died. Later she married T. E. Dawson, of Indian- 
apolis ; they have one living child. We are informed by the great- 
uncle of this Mrs. Elenora Eichelberger Dawson, that she died 
some time since, and as we could obtain no trace of her, we are 
disposed to think that he is right. Her only living brother cannot 
tell if it is true or no, so if she should be living and ever come 
across this, she will know at least where to find her brother. 

William, Jr., the sixth child of William and Sarah, lived in 
Miamisburg, Ohio. He married, we think, but cannot be sure 
either of that, or if he is now living. 



62 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

The youngest child of this family who grew past childhood was 
J. Edward Eichelberger, now of San Pedro, California. He is the 
head of a large firm in that place, the San Pedro Fish & Ice Co., 
wholesale catchers, packers and shippers of all varieties of Fresh 
and Salt Water Fish and Lobsters, also manufacturers of Pure Dis- 
tilled Water Ice. J. Edward Eichelberger married June 3d. 1875, 
Julia E, Miller, and has two children, Guy Dudley and Lida. This 
family are all living, the son at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the rest 
at San Pedro, California. 

DANIEL EICHELBERGER. 
Daniel Eichelberger, third son of John and Catherine, married 
Eliza Ann Rouzer ; they lived most of their lives in Dayton, Ohio. 
He also was engaged in milling. They had a family of four sons 
and two daughters. The youngest son died when but one year old. 
Thomas Benton, the second son, married Eugenia Wilder, but had 
no children ; he is living in Dayton, a widower. Martin Van- 
Buren, the oldest child, never married ; he resides in Dayton. The 
third son, Daniel Arthur, married, June, 1872, Anna Neal Crum ; 
he is a widower but has three children living, Fanny LeRoy, who 
in 1899 was married to Henry H. Fitch, and has one little son, 
Daniel Frederick Fitch. Lucy Bell and Frederick Otho reside with 
their father. Isabel, elder daughter of Daniel, married Frederick 
William Braun, by whom she had three children, but father and 
children have all been taken from this loving mother, who now 
lives in the same city as her brothers, but alone. Her only sister, 
Laura Rebecca Eichelberger, married Henry Clay Coffenbury; both 
have died, but they left one child, Leone Avon, who in January, a 
year ago, married Leslie Sever, of Dayton. 

HENRY EICHELBERGER. 
Henry Eichelberger, fourth son of John and Catherine, was born 
in Washington County, Md., July 9th, 1814 ; went West with his 
father, married there, in his eighteenth year, Sarah Routzer, of 
Springfield, Ohio, in 1832. While very young he learned the 
cooper's trade, and engaged in that and at farming for many years. 
He bought and sold many farms, having owned farms in fifteen 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 63 

different parts of Ohio. He has lived in that State ever since his 
early boyhood ; his wife died there in 1892, but Henry is still liv- 
ing, now residing with his grandson, in Middletown, Ohio. He is 
very active and strong, and although he is over 86 years of age he 
can walk a mile about as quickly as any boy. He weighs over two 
hundred pounds, and is well and hearty. He is surrounded by 
many descendants. He and his wife had five children, four sons, 
John Thomas, Charles, Wesley and Washington, and one daughter, 
Mary Jane. 

John T. Eichelberger married twice, first Elizabeth Drayer, of 
Miamisburg, Ohio, who bore him two children, Kate and Thomas 
O. She died four years after their marriage. John Thomas mar- 
ried Mary Deborah Duncan, in 1864 ; she bore him four children, 
Robert Dudley, Harry Duncan, Laura Mildred and Charles Carroll. 
When his youngest child was twenty years of age, John T. Eichel- 
berger died, at his home in Dayton, Ohio, where he had been a 
merchant for many years. Of his children, Kate married Marcus 
D. Wood, of Dunkirk, Indiana, by whom she has four living chil- 
dren, only one of whom, Bernice, has married, but all residing in 
Dunkirk. The only son of the first marriage of John Thomas 
Eichelberger, Thomas Oliver, lives in Middletown, Ohio. He is 
Secretary and Treasurer of the McSherry Manufacturing Company 
there, is married and has three charming young people to repre- 
sent him and the name, Charles Marcus, Edna and Kirk Wood. 

Of the children by the second marriage, Robert Dudley is with 
the Wells Fargo Express Company, in San Francisco, California, 
in the office of the General Superintendent. He married Bessie 
Lucas, of Kansas City, Mo., but has no children. Harry Duncan 
is State Agent for the Travelers' Insurance Co., and resides in 
Richmond, Va. He married Lillian Morris and has four children, 
little ones at home. Charles Carroll, youngest child of John Thom- 
as and his second wife, is located in Denver, Colorado, in charge of 
the John Deere Plow Company's business, for a large territory in 
the West. He is married to Alma May Hunt, but has no living 
child ; his only full sister, Laura Mildred, resides with him in 
Denver. 



64 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

The only daughter of Henry and Sarah was Mary Jane, who 
married Alfred Owens, of Xenia, Ohio, and had seven children : — 
Marley, now living in Xenia, still single ; Laura, now Mrs. Smith, 
living in Cleveland ; Charles, Thomas, Ralph and Maud, all living 
in Xenia ; Pearl, the second daughter, is married and has left the 
State. Alfred Owens and Mary Jane his wife are now both de- 
ceased ; she survived hira thirteen years and died in 1883. The 
second and youngest sons of Henry and Sarah, Charles H. and 
Washington, died while still young, but the third son, Wesley, 
lives now in Piqua, Ohio, where he carries on a large trade, and 
where his only son, who is lately married, assists him. 

JOSEPH EICHELBERGER. 
Joseph Eichelberger, fifth son of John and Catherine, settled in 
or near Urbaba, Ohio, where he has engaged in the business con- 
nected with the carrying on of several farms and large grain and 
lumber mills. He has been one of the most prominent citizens of 
that part of the State for many years, and is living there now, at 
the age of 84, a hale and hearty man for his years. He married 
Mary Eliza Maley, who has also been spared to her family these 
seventy-nine years. They had seven children, one of whom died 
in childhood. 

George M. Eichelberger bears a name honored and respected at 
the Bar of his native city, having been a lawyer there oyer thirty 
years, and having practised with the utmost skill and legal ability ; 
he has plead before all the courts and is known for his erudition 
and power. He is married since 1872, and has a most interesting 
family. His wife was Emma Ping, and their children are : Ger- 
trude Mary, who died in 1882 ; Susan P., George H., Frederick B., 
in the Census Department, Washington, D. C, Frank, and Robert 
L. The eldest son of this family was sent on a diplomatic mission 
to China, in the '90's. None of this family have married, as yet, 
but are residing at home with their parents. 

The saddest events in the life of this Joseph Eichelberger, was 
the burial of five grown sons, all men of prominence and ability. 
William, the eldest of these, married Elizabeth Jones, of Spring- 



THE EICHELEERGER FAMILY. 65 

field, Ohio ; they had four children, — Jeanette, Isabel, Frances and 
Walter ; the only married ones are Jeanette, who married Edwin 
M. S. Houston, ofUrbana, and Frances, who married Roger Sta- 
ley, of Springfield, Ohio. The first of these couples has one little 
girl, the latter no children. Of these five sons, William and Frank 
were lawyers, Sylvester a farmer, and Robert an artist. Sylvester 
married Emma Straw, of Carey, Ohio, but had no children. J. 
Frank was as fine a specimen of the Eichelberger race as ever lived 
among them ; he was over six feet in height and proportioned ac- 
cordingly ; he married a widow, Mrs. Sarah Mumma, by whom he 
had no children. He died when only thirty years old, a young 
lawyer of great promise. Robert A. early gave evidence of being 
able to become an artist of great ability. He studied art abroad, 
in Munich principally. His pictures are remembered today. After 
his death in 1891, a landscape of his sold for $1,500 ; it was on 
exhibition at Paris ; the owner has since refused |6,ooo for it. 

Isabel Eichelberger, the only daughter of Joseph and Eliza, who 
lived to maturity, married Edgar M. Ward, an artist of note of the 
city of New York. They have one son, Edgar S. Ward, a bright 
young student of seventeen, 

JOHN THOMAS EICHELBERGER. 
John Thomas Eichelberger, the youngest son of John and Cath- 
erine, was born in Maryland, but was so young when the family 
emigrated to Ohio, that that State only seemed home to him. He 
was a young man of great promise, and in 1846 married Julia 
Sweatly, of Germantown, Ohio. They had but one child, a daugh- 
ter, Addie, who married a Mr. Ireland, of that place, by whom she 
has eight living children, all residing in Germantown. John 
Thomas Eichelberger was a most lovely Christian character, who 
was cut off in his youth, comparatively, for he died when only 32 
years of age, leaving his widow and little daughter surviving him. 

SUSAN EICHELBERGER. 
Susan, second daughter of John and Catherine, was also born in 
Maryland, but was a babe at the time of the moving to Ohio. She 
married when very young, Jacob Hoff Boyer, and always lived in 



66 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

or near Dayton, Ohio. Her husband died eight years after their 
marriage, leaving her and five children. She remained a widow 
until her death in 1898. Her children are all still living, with the 
exception of the third daughter who died when 32 years old, un- 
married. The oldest son, Edward C. Boyer, is married and living 
in Dayton, as are his two younger sisters, who are single. The 
eldest daughter, Addie, married Lewis Taylor, of Germantown, 
Ohio, and has children. 

With this daughter, Susan Eichelberger Boyer, closes the his- 
tory of the children of John and Catherine. The daughters were, 
like their mother, consistent Christian women, while these six stal- 
wart sons were good and loyal citizens of their adopted State, and 
the name of Eichelberger has been upheld by them as virtuously 
as by their ancestors in Germany, Pennsylvania and Maryland. 

The father and mother of these eight children were members of 
the Lutheran Church, and they were born and christened in it, but 
in going West, where as you may know, there were no English 
Lutheran Churches at that time, they became members of other 
denominations. They were always faithful to whatsoever churches 
they did join, and active members of the same. Every one of 
them became Republicans, with the exception of Daniel, who died 
before the war. Daniel belonged to the Order of Odd Fellows, as 
well as the Masons, and was buried with Masonic honors ; Wil- 
liam and John both with the rite of Odd Fellowship. Henry 
Eichelberger, who has the honor of being the oldest member of his 
family, and also the oldest of the entire name, of whom we have 
any knowledge, is a member of the Methodist Church, and an Odd 
Fellow as well. He lives in the family of his grandson, and is sur- 
rounded by about sixty living descendants. He and every one of 
his brothers are, and always were strictly temperance men ; but 
one or two of them ever indulged in the use of tobacco, which 
many people would ascribe as being the cause of their long lives. 

Thus the lives and descendants of John and Catherine Eichel- 
berger. He died in 1847, she surviving him twenty-four years, 
living with her children, who were so proud of her being spared to 
them for 93 years, and write of her wonderful memory. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 67 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 
The second son of John and Mary Leonard Eichelberger, was 
Jacob, who lived and died in Maryland and married there, but we 
are unable to find the maiden name of his wife. He was a miller 
in Frederick County, Md., and did very well financially. He had 
four sons, John, William, Jacob and Leonard. Jacob died while 
comparatively a young man, and his wife survived him but a few 
years. Their four sons all emigrated to Ohio when quite young, 
William then going to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, immediately after 
his father's death. He brought a wife from Maryland with him, 
but we could not discover her name ; she bore him but one child, 
a daughter, Anna Belle, who married a Mr. Green and went with 
him to Arkansas where all trace of them has been lost. William 
Eichelberger was a miller and became a very wealthy man, but by 
the rascality of his partner he was ruined. The news of this com- 
ing to him very unexpectedly, was the cause of his sudden death. 

JOHN EICHELBERGER, of JACOB. 

His oldest son, John, was born in or near Hagerstown, moved 
to Ohio when a young man, and married in Dayton, in that State, 
in 1840, Christiana B. Winters. She bore him four sons, Frank 
W., Thomas B., Charles S. and William G., and one daughter, 
Laura B. John Eichelberger, son of Jacob, kept a hotel, first in 
Ohio and then in Iowa. He was known as a " most kindly host." 
He died in Bloomfield, Iowa, in 1887, his good wife surviving him 
until last March, when she died at the home of her eldest son in 
Bloomfield. This son, Frank W. Eichelberger, has for many years 
been a lawyer of note in lown, and he is now serving his second 
term as District Judge in that State. We are told of his being an 
ornament and a strong power as well to that Bar. He married 
Ella A. Pratt, by her having one child. May, who died nine years 
ago. 

THOMAS EICHELBERGER. 

Thomas, second son of John, was the City Editor of the Des 
Moines Daily Register. He was a great wit, known all over the 
State of Iowa for his apt and brilliant sallies. He had no children, 



68 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

but died in 1879. leaving his widow, who was Ella B. Reinacker, 
surviving hira. She is now the wife of H. F. Royce, General Su- 
perintendent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, and 
lives in Chicago. 

WILLIAM G. EICHELBERGER. 

William G. Eichelberger, the third son of John, lives in Bloom- 
field, Iowa. He is married and in business there, having one son, 
Charles, who in turn was married, last September, to Clyde Stur- 
devant. 

LAURA EICHELBERGER BRUNTON. 

Laura B., the only daughter of John, married Captain W. B. 
Brunton, of the United States Army. They made their home in 
Davenport, Iowa, where Mrs. Laura B. Brunton died in 1878, 
leaving two children, Mary, who is teaching in the Stanford Uni- 
versity of California, is a fine instructress in French and music. 
Her only brother, John Brunton, is prospecting in Nome, Alaska. 
Both are yet unmarried. 

CHARLES S. EICHELBERGER. 

The youngest son of John was Charles S., who died unmarried, 

before reaching thirty years of age. This closes the line of John, 

son of Jacob. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER, Jr. 

His brother, Jacob, Jr., emigrated to Ohio also, and in Bellbrook, 
Ohio, was married to Matilda Brewster ; they had two children, 
both of whom died unmarried. 

LEONARD EICHELBERGER. 

The youngest son of Jacob, Sr., Leonard, married Violet Kidder 
and had one child, a daughter, Jennie. She has married James 
Preston, and lives in Davenport, Iowa. Her children are, James, 
Pearl and Leo Preston. 

With these young people closes the line of Jacob, son of John 
and Mary Leonard Eichelberger. 

PETER EICHELBERGER. 

Peter, the third son of John, settled in Hagerstown, Md., where 
he lived many years. He was an early and active member of the 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 69 

first Lutheran Church in that town. He engaged in different busi- 
nesses, was for a long time partner with his brother-in-law, Adam 
Kinkle, in an extensive pork packing concern. Then he carried 
on a large grain mill, also after his son, Ari, grew to manhood he 
entered into the mercantile business with him. Peter Eichelberger 
in his youth exhibited that loyalty to his country for which the 
Eichelberger family are noted. He was in the later war with Eng- 
land in 1812-14, was sergeant of Captain Andrew Smith's company 
of the 51st Regiment of Maryland Volunteers. He served faith- 
fully in the battles of Fort McHenry and North Point, in defense 
of Baltimore in 1814. He enlisted as a private soldier, but his 
executive ability, and quiet, manly bravery, soon advanced him to 
become a sergeant. We doubt not had this war lasted any length 
of time, Peter Eichelberger would have advanced rapidly and held 
a high position in the army of the United States. He was twice 
married, his first wife being a Miss Deitrick, who bore him one 
daughter, Mahala. His second wife was Sarah Kertchner, by 
whom he had four children, Ari, Augustus, Maria and Peter. He 
survived both wives, and lived in Hagerstown, to a good old age, 
dying in 1875. He was nearly 90 years old at that time, and is re- 
membered yet by the inhabitants of that place, for his hearty good 
will and Christian fortitude which upheld him through his long 
busy life. 

His daughter, Maria, married a Dr. Gershong, of Washington, 
D, C, and has a family of five children, all living in that city. 
This family is composed of four daughters and one son, Hugh Ger- 
shong, who is a physician, and practising with his father. 

Ari, the eldest son of Peter, married Edna Smith, from near 
Reading, Pa., She bore him five sons and five daughters. The 
two older sons, Henry and Augustus, were among the patriots of 
the North in the Civil War. Augustus never married, and died 
soon after the surrender, from injuries contracted in the army. 
Henry married, and resides with his family in Hagerstown, as does 
his sister Catherine, now Mrs. Francis M. Hale ; also Indiana, 
Mrs. John Manious. Sarah, the oldest sister, was married three 
times, but died a few years ago. Ari died when his family was 



70 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Still quite young, and the five younger ones went to Altoona, Pa., 
where they now reside, most of them married and with families. 

The second son of Peter, Augustus, was a physician by profes- 
sion, but did not live long ; he never married. 

The third son, Peter, Jr., was also a physician, he settled in 
Quincy, Pa. He bore the enviable reputation of being an excel- 
lent one, with surgical skill not often seen in physicians of those 
days. He had a fine practice. He married a Miss Fochler, of 
Cavetown, Md. Dr. Peter Eichelberger, after a long life of benefit 
to his fellow-men, died in 1853. His three children were. Lucius, 
Virginia and Peter, Jr. Lucius married and resides in New York 
City with his two children, both single, Wilton and Mary Cather- 
ine, as does the doctor's widow and single daughter, Virginia. 
Peter, Jr., is married and living with his wife and three children 
just outside of Urbana, Ohio. He has a large and productive farm 
in the suburbs of that cit\\ 

So the line of Peter and his wife, Sally Eichelberger. 

HENRY EICHELBERGER. 
Of the history of Henry, the youngest son of John and Mary 
Eichelberger, we know almost nothing, and what little we have 
gathered has been in sort of story form as handed down in his 
brothers' families. We only know that he married in Maryland, 
and emigrated to Zanesville, Ohio, about the year 1820. He had 
only two children, both daughters. They married in Ohio, but 
our authority, a nephew of Henry, says he thinks that the whole 
of this family are now deceased. 

The daughters of John and Mary Leonard Eichelberger, were 
Mary Ann and Catherine. Mary Ann married Thomas Phillips, 
by whom she had one daughter and five sons, the former dying 
when but one year old, the eldest son, Thomas, becoming a physi- 
cian in St. Thomas, Pa. He died when only 28 years old, still 
single. He was an exceedingly bright and attentive young physi- 
cian. 

William, the second son, was a very scholarly man, a minister 
of first the Reformed Church, then the Episcopal, in both of which 



THE EICHELBEEGER FAMILY. fjj 

he held parishes, but finally entered the Roman Catholic, and as 
he was married, was debarred from further preaching. After this, 
he delivered lectures and held the chair of Belle-Lettres, in Seton 
Hall College, Orange, New Jersey. He married twice and had six- 
teen children, but only five who lived to maturity. His son 
Thomas, a brilliant lawyer in California, is married and has a fam- 
ily. William and Mary Belle, (Mrs. M. B. McGuire, ) reside in 
Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Minnie Rose, the second daughter of 
William, was becoming a noted artist when death claimed her, but 
one year ago. The youngest, Fanny, is now a Mrs. Conrad, of 
Kansas City, Missouri. The last earthly home of William Phillips 
was at St. Josephs, Missouri, where his widow now resides. 

Israel Phillips, the third son of Mary Ann. was a miller by trade, 
lived in Lewisburg, Maryland, and married Marie Louise Lam- 
bert ; by her he had but two children, Thomas, who died young, 
and Louise, who married J. A. Lay ton, of Montrose, Colorado. 
They have a family of four sons, two of whom are married. Is- 
rael is dead and is buried in Lewisburg. 

The next son of Mary Ann Phillips, nee Eichelberger, was John, 
who located in Waynesboro, Pa., in 1845, and became what is call- 
ed in his obituary, "the parent of banking in Waynesboro." He 
was a very successful financier, the advisory head of many busi- 
ness enterprises in that place. It was said of him, that in his long 
connection with the bank in Waynesboro, he never lost a cent of 
the money entrusted to his care. His death was a serious blow to 
that community. He married in 1848, Susan Clayton, of Waynes- 
boro ; by her he had six children, only two of whom lived through 
their childhood. Clayton, second son, bids fair to follow faithfully 
in the footsteps of his conscientious and able father, being a banker 
in his native place. He is married and has two children, living 
not far from the residence of his mother, with whom is living 
the only daughter, Grace E. A. Phillips. 

The last child of Mary Ann and Thomas was Samuel, of Wayne, 
Pa., a minister of the Presbyterian faith, a ripe scholar and devout 
teacher of the Word of God. He married Rebecca Kay, by whom 
he had a family often ; four of these died in infancy, two remain- 



72 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

ing bachelors, but dying under the age of thirty-five. Only three 
married, Oliva, Melville and Ida. The daughter of Olivia is the 
wife of R. P. Faulkner, who is now Librarian of the new Congress- 
ional Library, in Washington, D. C. To him we are gratefully in- 
debted for much of our first knowledge of all the sons -bar one, 
and the two daughters of John Eichelberger and Mary Leonard. 
Thomas Phillips, husband of Mary Ann Eichelberger, was an Eng- 
lishman, a man of wide charity, of deep knowledge and good busi- 
ness ability. 

The youngest child of John Eichelberger, Catherine, married to 
Adam Kinkle, of Hagerstown, had four children,— Ann Catherine, 
who married W. K. Tice ; Eliza, only a child of three when she 
died ; Mary C, who married R. Curtes, of Hagerstown, and James 
Clinton, who studied medicine and has practised for many years in 
Baltimore. He married there and has a son residing near him. 
Mrs. Tice and her sister, Mrs. Curtes, both have children Hying, 
but they themselves have been dead many years. Adam Kinkle 
was for a long time in business with Peter, the brother of his wife ; 
in the pork packing business on a very large scale, both became 
quite wealthy. 

With the family of Catherine, we close the line of John and 
Mary Leonard Eichelberger. His wife, Mary, lived to see her 83d 
birthday, dying February 22d, 1840. They are buried in the rear 
of the old Lutheran Church, in Hagerstown, noar the gate, at the 
left entrance. Their four sons were industrious husbandmen, mil- 
lers, or hard-working business men. Their bread was earned and 
they were all honest and self-respecting. 

From the race of John, we trace business men, law-makers and 
law-givers, with but one representative of the fine arts. From Ja- 
cob, a race of keen business men, as well as lawyers and judges. 
From the line of Peter, we trace men like their upright progenitor, 
honest, sturdy, able sons of industry, with several who have de- 
voted their lives to healing bodily infirmities. Of the talents and 
tendencies of the descendants of Henry, we know very little. We 
have been told that the sons of his daughters were scholarly men, 
several lawyers, and one a professor in a Western College. From 



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the line of the daughters we see a great difference. Of the children 
of Mary Ann, they are mostly scholarly and deeply religious men, 
with clear business heads among them, while in Catherine's line 
we find mostly business men, with a few physicians among the 
number. 



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Adam Eichelberger. 

Oldest Son of Philip Frederick and his second Wife, Magdalene. 



Adam Eichelberger — as I write, the name it makes me long for 
the pen of a ready writer to tell of this life devoted for so many 
years to the good of his country, and of the men, women and chil- 
dren who were suffering from the privations consequent upon the 
war. Adam was born, May 12th, 1739, at the farm in Manheim 
Township, then in Lancaster County, now York County, as were 
all of Magdalene's sons. We may see him as the oldest, a sturdy 
German-American boy growing almost while one looks, for we are 
told that "he was a stout, lusty man, over six feet in height, 
weighed over two hundred pounds, and had light hair and eyes, 
and, best of all, was noted for his great kindness of heart and geni- 
al temperament." Several years before his death, Philip Freder- 
ick, as we know, moved to Hanover. At that time having assist- 
ed Martin to a fine hotel business in York, and Frederick, Jr., to a 
farm in Maryland, he gave over to Adam the home farm, near 
Hanover. This must have taken place soon after Adam's marriage 
to Magdalene Bechtel, which was in or about 1769. Adam also 
obtained possession of what is now called the " Mill Place," then 
in Manheim Township, now in Heidelberg Township, situated also 
east of Hanover. This mill, in close proximity to the Hanover & 
York Railroad, is now owned by George Jacobs. 

Adam was spoken of in his boyhood as "a lad of promise," and 

well he kept that promise. He was a staunch and loyal son to this 
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new Government, and that at a time when loyalty meant a great 
deal, when he knew that but a turn of affairs might have made his 
dear ones homeless and himself branded as a traitor and condemn- 
ed to meet the fate of one. But fear of that never deterred men of 
this family from doing their best, giving their all to uphold their 
leaders in the stand for their just rights. He gave largely to the 
poor in York, at one single time 5 pounds, 15 shillings and 6 pence, 
this at a time when money was scarce, to relieve those bereft of 
their natural supporters by the call to arms. He also gave largely 
at other times but only this time is the amount mentioned. He 
sent, with others, alms to those who suffered in other cities from 
the same cause, and aided largely in collecting supplies for the 
army. He was a prominent and influential citizen, and as such 
received the following Commission : — 

IN ASSEMBLY. 

April 25th, 1776. 

To Adam Eichelberger, Esquire, 

WE reposing especial trust and confidence in 
your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, 
by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be 
Captain of a Company of foot in the third Battalion 
of Associators in the County of York for the protec- 
tion of this Province, against all hostile Enterprises, and for the 
defence of American Liberty. 

You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the 
Duty of a Captain as aforesaid by doing and performing all man- 
ner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge 
and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be 
obedient to your Orders as their Captain. And you are to ob- 
serve and follow such orders and Directions, from Time to Time, 
as you shall receive from the Assembly during their Sessions; 
and, m their Recess, from the present or any future Committee 
of Safety appointed by the Assembly of this Province, or from 
your superior Officer, according to the rules and Regulations for 
the better Government of the Military Association in Pennsylva- 
nia, and pursuant to the Trust reposed in you. This Commission 
to continue in Force until revoked by the Assembly, or by the 
present or any succeeding Committee of Safet). 

Signed by Order of the Assembly, 

JOHxN MORTON, Speaker. 




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THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 75 

In battles where he led his soldiers, Captain Adam is described 
as the bravest of brave leaders — "fear had no part in him" — and 
like one of Napoleon's generals, he "faced death with a lover's 
smile and embrace." 

For five years he kept a "Tavern for Men and Beasts." We 
have the licenses granted him for the same, in which he is describ- 
ed as " a fober and fit perfon to keep a houfe of Entertainment." 
This was very probably kept as a means to help support their fast 
growing family, by Magdalene, at the home place, while Adam 
served as soldier and as captain. The last two years of his life he 
was sent to the Assembly. In 1784, Adam bought at an auction 
sale 300 acres of land near the boundary of our State with Ohio, 
which the deeds describe as " Wild lands in the far West." It 
also goes in the tax receipts by the name of " Nathaniel Bradim's 
district," a man of that name having surveyed the land. It is just 
around where the City of Pittsburg is to-day, and brought only 
twenty-five dollars. 

Just as the new country had settled to a few years of peace, just 
as he might think that now he would set about to prepare for his 
declining years, when only three of his children were fully grown, 
Adam Eichelberger died. Pennsylvania had no more loyal son 
than he, his county no better representative, and although not 
reaching the prominence of some, all who knew him mourned him, 
and were thankful he had been spared them through those trying 
days of war, when honest, sturdy, staunch and loyal men like he 
were so much needed. Adam busy as he was, did also well by his 
young family, to whom he left two large farms, one mill and what 
would to day amount to twelve thousand dollars. In his will he 
makes his "wife Magdalene," to whom he leaves the "little house 
down by the spring" as well as a yearly income, "my loving 
brother Leonard and my eldest son Frederick," the executors. 

His grave may be found to-day in Bair's graveyard, on the 
York road, which land he himself presented to the community for 
a graveyard and church, not a mile from that home which he and 
BO many of the name have loved so well, " The Eichelberger 
Farm." 



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His widow survived him twenty-seven years, raising the rest of 
the children who were young at the time of their father's death, 
Joseph, Adam, Susannah and Salome. Frederick was twenty-four 
at the time, and was married to Anna Frena Hotter, of Maryland, 
and had one child, George, but a few months old. Adam's chil- 
dren were eight in number, — Frederick, Michael, Elizabeth, Sam- 
uel, Adam, Jr., Susan, Joseph and Salome. Susan, or Susannah, 
as her father's will calls her, was but nine at the time of his death 
and only lived to the age of nineteen. 

FREDERICK EICHELBERGER, (Owen's Creek.) 
Frederick, who bought a farm in Maryland through which ran a 
creek called "Owen's," and often called to distinguish him from 
the other Frederick, then living, "Owen's Creek Frederick," and 
his wife Anna, had a large family of twelve children,— George, 
Adam, Joseph and Susannah, twins, Martin, Magdalene, Elizabeth, 
Mary, Frederick, Lewis, Sophia and Catherine. Times were more 
quiet as Frederick came to manhood, and well for him they were, 
with his boys and girls to look out for. He accumulated a great 
deal of property, had a grant of 513 acres in Maryland, and bought 
farms in Virginia and Maryland, on which he put his sons. He 
was an Assemblyman in 1800 and 1802, but after that seems td 
have retired from political life. As he grew older, Frederick is 
said to have become a very strict old man ; he would make his i 
yearly trips to his farms on which his sons were living, cane in 
hand, and, did things not go to suit him, never paused, but raised 
his cane on whomsoever his wrath fell heaviest. We have a pic- 
ture of him copied from a portrait, which we give on the opposite 

page. 

But he did well by all his children, outlived his wife many years, 
she dying in 1815. and died at last, aged 75 years, August 17, 1838. 
Most truly beloved and mourned, for although severe, he lived in 
and for his family ; and his wife is described as one of the "hap- 
piest looking women " of her day. Now for one moment's speech 
of her, who though not an Eichelberger born, did much to elevate 
and refine those descendants of hers who were Eichelbergers. As 




"Owen's Creek" FREDERICK EICHELBERGER. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 77 

a grandson wrote : " Grandfather and all of his sons and daugh- 
ters as far as I can gather, were staunch Lutherans. Also grand- 
mother, of whose religious life and triumphant death, grandfather 
writes in most happy and cheerful words." 

GEORGE EICHELBERGER. 
Frederick's sons nearly all went to Virginia. George, the eldest, 
first moved to Virginia in 1816, and had a most beautiful home of 
300 acres, called Federal Hill. . His property and necessary slaves, 
the toilers of that day and generation, were the care of George's 
life, a happy and prosperous one. He married Catherine Meyers, 
of Pennsylvania, by whom he had four children, — Frederick, 
George W., Lewis S. and Ann Elizabeth. Frederick and the only 
daughter, Ann Elizabeth, married distant connections of their 
mother's family, Meyers, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They 
were descendants of Philip Meyers, of Wyoming Massacre fame, 
and a Lieutenant Lawrence Meyers, who was on Washington's 
staff, and fought at the Brandywine. Frederick, the oldest son, 
married Harriet Meyers ; in 1858 they moved to St. Mareos, Texas. 
They had lost two infant children, but the three living went there 
with them. Virginia died in girlhood ; John, the only son, was 
killed by being thrown from a Texan- horse ; Lily, the youngest 
child, was living in Texas at last accounts. 

George W., Jr., second son of George, was born in West Virginia 
in 1820 ; in 1848 married Anna Maria Wirt, daughter of Henry 
Wirt, of Hanover. They lived on their beautiful Virginia home 
where Mrs. George became greatly beloved both by friends whom 
she made there and by the negroes on their plantation. She only 
lived a few years, but left her husband one daughter, Blanche, 
an attractive daughter of the Eichelberger race, who afterwards 
married Professor S. S. Smeltzer, a gentleman of great learning 
and polish, of Staunton, Va., where she is now living with her two 
children, her husband and two other children having died. 

George W. Eichelberger, after the death of his first wife, married 
again, the lady being the daughter of his uncle Martin, Maria 
Louisa Eichelberger ; by this wife he had one daughter, Anna, a 



78 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

young lady of fine musical ability, a teacher now at Capon Springs, 
West Virginia. 

Lewis Smith, third son of George and Catherine E., married Miss 
Sarah Wirt, also of Hanover, in May, 1851. He was born in Vir- 
ginia, and was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. After mar- 
rying, they made their home at Duffield Depot, Va., in a beautiful 
house. Here he practised his profession for several years, after- 
wards moving to Canton ville, Va., where Mrs. E. died in 1864. 
They had only one son, William Wirt, who was of an exceedingly 
studious, gentle and retiring disposition. At St. Timothy's Hall, 
and at a large school in Baltimore he was always first in his studies. 
He made the law his chosen profession, was admitted to the bar in 
1875, and about the same time was married to Miss Helen Wheatly, 
of Baltimore. Entering the service of the Government, he did 
duty at Boston, Washington, Mobile, New York, and Portland, 
Maine, where he, from overstudy and too close application, died 
in 1886. He had five children, — Edith, Blanche, William Wirt, Jr., 
Arthur and Paul. Edith and Arthur died in childhood, Blanche 
lived to the age of seventeen, while the other two sons still live 
with their mother. After the death of Dr. Lewis Eichelberger's 
firit wife, he, in 1866, married a Mrs. Elizabeth Richstien, but 
they had no children. 

Ann Elizabeth, only daughter and youngest child of George and 
Catherine, married like her oldest brother, Frederick, into that 
family of Meyers, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., of whose connection with 
Revolutionary history I have spoken. Her husband, Lawrence 
Meyers, was a wealthy banker : they had a most delightful home, 
but only one daughter, and the mother died while she was but an 
infant. The daughter, Georgianna, with all before her to make 
her young life delightful, died when she was but twenty, a pretty 
and charming young lady. 

ADAM EICHELBERGER, (Owen's Creek.) 
Adam, second son of "Owen's Creek" Frederick, was the second 
also to move to Virginia ; he and his brother Martin, enthused by 
the beauties of their brother's home, wished for one as lovely. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 79 

And Frederick, severe and austere as he is said to have been, de- 
lighted to please his children, bought them each a home in Vir- 
ginia, adjoining one another ; one consisting of five hundred acres, 
the other of three hundred. After settling and making a home for 
her, Adam came back to York, Pa., for his wife. At the age of 
twenty-eight, he married Magdalene Hoke, by whom he had six 
children, Eliza and Jacob died in childhood ; James Milton, a young 
man of great promise, studied medicine in Philadelphia, but while 
there was taken ill, and died at the age of twenty-two. 

The second son, John Adam Hoke Eichelberger, moved to Gales- 
burg, 111., finally to Pana, a devout and active member and an 
Elder in the Presbyterian Church there, where he died about ten 
years ago. He was married to Mary Adeline Honore, of Charles- 
ton, South Carolina, in 1851. They have five sons and two daugh- 
ters. Of these last, Alice married Ira Burlingham ; they live in 
Washington, D. C, where Mr. Burlingham is Division Superintend- 
ent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, between Washington and 
St. Louis, They have two children, Catherine Honore, aged fif- 
teen and Ruth Lyons, aged four. Charles Norman and his brother, 
Wm. H., are in the drug business in Pana, living with their sister 
Marion. The second son, J. H., called "Harry," in 1893 married 
Margaret White ; they have two sons upon whom will devolve the 
responsibility of carrying the name down into the coming genera- 
tion, in Pana, Illinois, as they are the only grandsons of John 
Adam Hoke who bear the family name. They are Norman Jute 
and Chauncey Honore. 

The third, son of John Adam Hoke Eichelberger is John Willard, 
who was married in 1898 to Clara Hutchins, of Rosmond, Illinois. 
They have one little daughter, Florence Easterbrook, a mere babe 
as yet. 

Jesse Lee, the youngest, is still single, a pharmacist, located in 
Kawanee, Illinois. 

John Adam Hoke Eichelberger was first in the wholesale grocery 
business, then became a traveling salesman. He was of a genial 
nature and made many friends, dying in his 59th year, while his 



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gentle and lovely wife survived him but two years, dying July 
22d, 1892. 

Harvey S., second son of Adam and Magdalene, married Lizzie 
Shaffer, and moved to Graham, Texas, He lives just outside that 
city, a wealthy ranchman, and his two sons, Milton and Albert, are 
carrying on an extensive business in the place. The younger of 
the sons, Albert, is still single, while Milton was married in 1899, 
to Susie Collins. They have one little daughter, born last July, 
Mary Elizabeth Eichelberger. 

The two daughters of this family, now Mrs. Blanche E. Johnson 
and Mrs. Caroline E. Joline, both live near their parents, and both 
have families. 

The only daughter of Adam and Magdalene Hoke Eichelberger 
to live to a marriageable age, was Savannah, who married James 
Aulick. This couple died quite young, but left three children, 
Elizabeth and Albert who are both married and living in New York 
city, and William, the youngest, still single, who lives in the same 
city. 

Adam, the father of this family, died young, while just begin- 
ning to enjoy his dear Virginia plantation, which made his life's 
work for him. He was but a little over thirty years of age when 
called to his home in those beautiful mansions, and left his young 
wife alone with her three living children, but she responded to the 
call thus made upon her most bravely, and ran the plantation in 
such a business-like way as to be able to start the children in the 
world very well. When her son, John Adam Hoke, left for Illinois 
she went with him, lived with him in Galesburg and then in Lewis- 
town of that State. There she died about 1878, and there she is 

buried. Her husband is buried in Virginia. 

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FREDERICK and CATHERINE EICHELBERGER. 

Frederick, namesake of his father, died while yet a child, as did 
also his sister Catherine. Out of this large family, these two were 
the only ones who did not live to marry and have children, and 
with ten children giving him descendants it is no wonder that 
" Owen's Creek " Frederick had a long line. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 8l 

JOSEPH EICHELBEKGEE. 

Joseph, the fourth son of Frederick and Anna Frena Motter, was 
with his twin sister Susannah, born October loth, 1795. He never 
left home as did his brothers, but we can see him living near his 
father, the filial staff of his declining years. He too had a delight- 
ful home in Frederick County, Md., and married Elizabeth Hoke, 
of Mercersburg, Pa., by whom he had the following children : — 
Michael, married to Isabelle Favorite, moved to Dayton, Ohio, 
where he raised a family of seven children, and died in 1892, in his 
62d year ; his widow is still living in Dayton. Their oldest child 
died, one son, Allen, is single, is in business and living with his 
mother. All the rest are married and living in Ohio except one, 
Olive, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Martin, second son of Joseph, moved to Emmitsburg, or near 
there. He married Cassandra Favorite, by whom he had five chil- 
dren, and died in 1896. Of his children only one, George, is mar- 
ried, and has two children. Gregg was killed by an accident on 
the railroad, some time since. The rest, Joseph, Carrie and Maria, 
are living, but we do not know where. 

Of Joseph's daughters, Harriet, the eldest died at 24 ; Virginia 
not much later in life, both single ; Elizabeth died in infancy, 
while Mary married John Seabrook and raised four boys and five 
girls, several of whom are married, with little ones of their own. 
Susan Eichelberger married George Zimmerman, M. D., and has 
two sons and one daughter, Clayton and Effie single, and Frank 
who married Mary Black and has five children. Marian, the 
youngest child of Joseph, lives at Rocky Ridge, Md., and has 
taught school for many years. 

Grayson, third son of Joseph, lives in JefFersonville, Ohio, 
where he moved after the Civil War. When the call for troops 
was made in the Civil War, he enlisted in Co. D, 6th Maryland 
Volunteers, as a private, at Mechanicstown, Frederick County, 
Md. August 7th, 1862, was promoted sergeant, later to ist ser- 
geant ; then to First Lieutenant of Co. D, November 17th, 1864, 
Captain of Co. G, April 13th, 1865 ; brevetted Captain in U. S. 

Army, April 2d, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services before 
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82 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Petersburg, Va. He led the 67th Pennsylvania Veteran Volun- 
teers into action April 2cl, 1865, in the assault on the Rebel lines at 
Petersburg, and captured a "Division Flag." Served entire 
time of enlistment in Army of the Potomac, and with Gen. Milroy 
in Shenandoah Valley, in 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 8th Array Corps, 
later in i$t Brigade, 2d Division, 8th Army Corps ; July 9th, 1863, 
2d Brigade, 3d Division, 3d Army Corps ; March 24th 1864, 2d | 
Brigade, 3d Division, 6th Army Corps, where his regiment remain- 
ed until the surrender of Lee at Appomatox closed the war. He | 
participated in the following battles, besides many skirmishes : — 
Winchester, 1863, Milroy ; 1864, Sheridan ; Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania. Cold Harbor, North and South Anna Rivers, Petersburg, 
Opequan, Fisher's Hill, Wapping Heights and Sailor's Creek. 
Was hit with spent ball on ankle at the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864, 
again with spent ball on instep at Spottsylvania, May loth, 1864, 
and was severely wounded across left breast at Winchester, Va., 
September 19th, 1864, and was kept in a hospital for four months, 
which was the only time spent in hospital during entire service. 

This is indeed a record to be proud of. This is one of the sol- 
diers and patriots of whom we have boasted, this veteran of the 
Civil War. In 1867, he married Hannah M. Coyner, by whom he 
has six children. Maud died in 1870 ; Phoebe N. married a Mr. 
Kirk, in 1896, and has one little son. The rest of the children re- 
side with their parents. Grayson Eichelberger is connected with 
the Fayette County Infirmary of Ohio. 

MAETIN LUTHER EICHELBERGER. 1 

Martin Luther, fifth son of " Owen's Creek " Frederick, lived 
near Creagerstown, Md., then moved in the early '40's to his pleas- 
ant home and plantation bought for him by his father, next that of 
his brother Adam. It was called Rock Spring. He also bought a 
mill property which he sometimes ran ; he was a member of the 
Board of County Commissioners for the years 1833-34-35 and 1844- 
45. He also filled a few other positions, but the care of such a 
large and fruitful plantation occupied all his time as did theirs that I 
of his brothers. 



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Martin Luther Eichelberger justified his name by his deep re- 
ligious feeling and beautiful Christian life. There was a feeling of 
pleasure among the neighboring Virginians as they became ac- 
quainted with these brothers whom they had been expecting rath- 
er to look down upon as Pennsylvania-Germans ; but whose sturdy 
uprightness, cordial manners and lovely Christian lives, won their 
heartiest respect and liking. This comes to me from a son of one 
of these neighbors. At the age of 29 Martin married Maria Zim- 
merman. This couple raised a family of six children, — Joseph L. , 
Ann Eliza, Webster, Maria Louisa, Jane Elizabeth and George 
Frederick. We have no record of his wife, but Martin himself died 
in 1855, aged 57 years, 10 months and 7 days. 

Joseph Luther, eldest son of Martin Luther and Maria Eichel- 
berger, born in Frederick County, Md., October 27, 1827, moved 
with his parents to Jefferson County, Virginia, now West Virginia, 
in the early '40's, where he worked with his father in the milling 
business and on the farm until he was 21 years of age. He died 
March 31st, 1898, aged 70 years. 5 months and 29 days. He fol- 
lowed the occupation of farming during his entire life. He was 
three times married ; first to Deborah SchaefFer, by whom two 
children were born to him, Deborah, who lived to the age of six 
years, and Nellie, who died an infant of six months. His second 
wife was Eliza Catherine Deest, who bore him three children, — 
Martin Luther, born February 4, 1867, married in November, 1896. 
He is a hardware merchant in Shepherdstown, W. Va., and has no 
living child. Mary Catherine is a teacher in the National Business 
College, at Roanoke, Va. Nettie May, a teacher, in 1898 married 
Jacob Strider Moler, and lives at Keller, W. Va. Her husband is 
postmaster, and engaged in general merchandising. One child, 
Wallace McClure, was born to them April 23, 1900. The third wife 
of Joseph survives him, S. Jane Barrick, also a descendant of Fred- 
erick, the grandfather of her husband. Her one son, Charles Bar- 
rick Eichelberger, was born April 28, 1885. He and his mother 
live in Frederick County, Maryland. 

George Frederick, brother of Joseph Luther, when a lad of eight- 
een became a member, with his brother Webster, of the famous 



84 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Stonewall Brigade in the Confederate Army, and served well and 
effectually in that army until the surrender of Lee, when he re- 
turned home. Some years after he procured a position in the Gov- 
ernment Printing: Office, at Washington, D. C, where he has been 
for fifteen years. He has never married. 

Webster, second son of Martin Luther and Maria Eichelberger, 
has his record in life given here in a more full and comprehensive 
manner than it would be in my power to give it, so with pleasure 
I insert the following : - 

" This faithful servant of God and His church was suddenly call- 
ed from the labors of earth to his rest and reward, on Wednesday 
morning, December 15th, at about half-past eleven o'clock. For 
several years he had not been in the enjoyment of his customary 
robust health ; but had so greatly improved, that at the recent 
meeting of Synod he appeared to his friends and brethren to have 
promise of length of days. On the day preceding his death, he re- 
turned to his home at Smithfield, from distant preaching appoint- 
ments, in good spirits, and expressing himself as less fatigued than 
usual by such a trip. On the following morning, however, while 
engaged in some necessary work in the parsonage yard, he was, 
'as in the twinkling of an eye,' stricken down. A servant to 
whom he had just spoken pleasantly as he passed out from the 
house, saw him immediately after his fall, but when she went to 
him found him dead. 

"The event has been a sad and startling shock, not only to the 
immediate family of our departed brother, and to the community 
in which he lived, but to many friends and brethren far and near, 
who highly esteemed hira for the purity and sincerity of his Chris- 
tian character, and the unvarying kindness of his disposition. As 
one of the older brethren has written, ' It can truly be said of hira, 
that he was a good man, an humble minded disciple of the Lord. 
A pure and simple hearted Christian, a Nathaniel without hypocri- 
sy and without guile. He was faithful to duty and remarkably 
conscientious in his walk and conversation. His citizenship was 
in Heaven, and there, no doubt, he now enjoys in full position its 
immunities and unspeakable happiness.' 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 85 

*' Brother Eichelberger was born in Frederick County, Md., 
March 9th, 1835. While the subject of our notice was yet quite a 
child, his father removed his family to Jefferson County, Virginia, 
(now West Virginia, ) and his early education was secured at the 
academy of the county seat, Charlestown. He entered the Junior 
Class of Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, in 1854, ^^^ was 
graduated in 1856, after which he was for a time engaged in teach- 
ing. Feeling it his duty to enter the Gospel ministry, he returned 
to Gettysburg for a course of instruction in the Theological Semin- 
ary and accepted, temporarily, a position aa tutor at Roanoke Col- 
lege. Soon thereafter, upon the breaking out of the war, he enter- 
ed the Confederate service, being a private in the Second Regiment 
of Virginia Infantry, from June 21, 1861, to July 21, 1862. He 
was ordained to the ministry in 1863. and in connection with occa- 
sional preaching held a place as tutor and adjunct Professor in 
Latin in Newberry College, South Carolina. In 1864-65 he labored 
as Chaplain in the Confederate army, particularly in connection 
with the Twentieth Regiment of South Carolina Infantry, Upon 
the close of the war he was engaged for some years at teaching in 
various private £,chools, availing himself however, of all oppor- 
tunities to prosecute the work that he loved — the preaching of the 
Word. Since 1869 he has served different pastorates in the Vir- 
ginia Synod, and at the time of his death was missionary pastor of 
the Smithfield charge. December 9th, 1874, he was married to Miss 
Elizabeth M. Hobart, of Hampshire County, W. Va., who with 
their surviving child, a son of about ten years, [this was written 
at the time of his death, 1884,] have the sympathies and prayers 
of many, in their sore bereavement. The funeral services were 
held in Smithfield, December 17th. and notwithstanding the sever- 
ity of the weather, a large congregation of the departed pastor's 
parishioners, neighbors and friends were present. He lies buried 
in Edge Hill Cemetery, Charlestown." 

His one son, Philip Frederick, is connected on his mother's side 
with our late Vice President and is the only living descendant of 
Philip Frederick, the first who bears his full name. He is about 
26 years of age. 



85 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of Martin Luther, was married in 
1851 to Rev. J. O. Smeltzer, who was a minister in the church of 
his fathers. Dr. Smeltzer was the first President of Roanoke Col- 
lege, and was a man of scholarly attainments, and his wife was a 
meet companion, being of a lovely Christian character, and a most 
devoted wife and mother. Both are dead now. They had eleven 
children, the three youngest of whom died in childhood. The eld- 
est daughter, Mrs. Frederick Muller, has six children ; the next, 
Mrs. Kate Eargle, has lately been left a widow with three young 
children, and Mrs. I. J. Seyle, with three children, completes the 
list of daughters in this family. 

Of the sons, William B. and Charles M., who died in 1876, lived 
bachelors, and John B. and Samuel S. married. John B. died in 
1893, but left a young son, John B. Smeltzer, Jr. Samuel S., was 
married to Blanche, the daughter of George William Eichelberger, 
who with two children survives him ; he died in 1891. 

Maria Louisa, the second daughter of Martin Luther, a staunch 
and true Christian daughter who followed in the footsteps of her 
parents, married George W. Eichelberger, of West Virginia, and 
bore him one daughter, Anna, as noted elsewhere in this record. 

Jane Elizabeth, the next sister of Ann Eliza and Maria Louisa, 
never married, but was the good fairy in the homes of her sisters 
and nieces, as only a single lady could be. She died in Charles- 
ton, S. C, May, 1898. This finishes the line of Martin Luther 
Eichelberger. 

LEWIS FREDERICK EICHELBERGER. 

Lewis Frederick Eichelberger, youngest son of Frederick, has 
his life better described in the following article written by Rev- J. 
E. Bushnell, D. D., of Winchester, Va., than I could possibly give 
it:— 

The early training of the subject of this sketch was in tlie school of 
Rev. Dr. Schaeffer, of Frederick. While boarding with a married sis- 
ter in Georgetown, D. C, he afterward attended the classical school of 
Rev. Dr. Carnahan, who became the President of Princeton College. 
In 1826 he graduated at Dickinson College and shared the honors of 
his class with Dr. Baugher, the first President of Pennsylvania Col- 




Ekv. lewis F. EICHELBERGER. D. D., LL.D. 



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lege, and George Buchanan, a brother of the President of the United 
States. He at once entered the newly organized Seminary at Gettys- 
burg and graduated with Dr. Morris and others in the first class. He 
was licensed to preach by the Synod of Maryland and Virginia at 
Shepherdstown, October 21, 1828, and while yet a student accepted 
the unanimous call to become pastor of the Lutheran church in Win- 
chester, being the third pastor of this historic congregation, succeed- 
ing Christian Streit and Abraham Reck. In 1833 he opened a female 
school known as Auquerona Seminary, and also became editor of The 
Virginian. 

After declining an appointment to the Professorship of Theology at 
Lexington, S. C, he afterwards changed his decision and served the 
Seminary up to the year of his death. In 1853, the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity was conferred by Princeton College, which was then one 
of the most influential church institutions of the country. He resign- 
ed his Professorship in 185S, and returned to Winchester greatly im- 
paired in health. Dr. Morris, in his valuable biography, says : " He 
eagerly seized the leisure at his disposal for the execution of a long- 
cherished purpose to prepare for the press a popular and compact 
History of the Lutheran Church for which he had made extensive 
preparations. Although frequently interrupted bv illness and much 
disabled by bodily weakness, he yet lived to finish this last work of 
love to his Church, of which he was an admiring and loyal son, and a 
faithful, self-denying servant. Death found him with the harness on 
ready to do or die as the Lord might order. His death was peace, 
was triumph. It was a privilege which shall never be forgotten to see 
his heavenly composure and to hear his dying utterances. When he 
had but strength to whisper a few words at a time, he said to a broth- 
er minister, ' Christ is a precious Saviour. He does more than He 
promises for His dying followers. Go preach to sinners, Christ will 
save them all. Nothing but Christ will do in death.' He was much 
beloved by all for whom and with whom he labored, and was univers- 
ally respected and esteemed wherever he lived. (Fifty Years in Luth- 
eran Ministry.) 

The inaugural address of Dr. Eichelberger, when called a second 
time to service in the Seminary in 1852, as successor to the esteemed 
Dr. Hazelius, sets forth in a scriptural and scholarly spirit the true el- 
ements of an efficient ministry, and his official exchange of letters, 
with reports to the board, also furnish valuable notes upon the condi- 
tion of the work in those early days. 

Ldwis married twice, first in 1830, Mary Miller. Their oldest 
son, John Miller, graduated at Pennsylvania College, then at the 



88 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Seminary, at Gettysburg, was a beautiful Christian character, and 
would have made, no doubt, a minister of like usefulness as his 
father. But God took hira to those mansions prepared for us, 
when he had only been on this earth twenty years. 

The next son, Henry Samuel, was a most useful man, whose ful- 
fillment of his chosen profession made him in Staunton, Va. , ad- 
mired and loved as only a good and kind physician can be. He 
received his degree of M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania, 
April, 1854, then settled in Staunton, where in connection with his 
practice, he opened and owned a drug store, and for twenty years 
was the leading pharmacist and physician in the town. In 1859, 
he married Susan Catherine Baylor, also a Virginian, of prominent 
family whose members always were ready to serve bravely and 
well at the call of their State ; she still survives hira. They had 
six children. George Baylor, died at the age of twenty, a bright 
and cordial copy of his father. Hugh Gilbert, a lawyer who in his 
turn married in 1891, Sadie Crawford Eichelberger ; they bave 
three young sons, Hugh Crawford, aged eight, George Baylor, 
four, and Henry Baxter, two. Hugh Gilbert is also proprietor of 
Variety Springs, a most delightful Summer resort in Augusta 
County, Virginia. Henry Lewis, his brother, is a merchant in 
Staunton, Va. He was but lately married to Nannie Griffin Her- 
ring, of Bridgewater, Va. Mamie Bell, eldest daughter of Dr. 
Henry Samuel Eichelberger, was a lovely and lovable girl, just 
engaged to a young minister of the Episcopal Church, when she 
was taken ill, and died in 1889. Charles Preston, the Dr's. fourth 
son, has followed in the footsteps of his father, and has been for 
some years on the staff of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, in New 
York City. He has not yet married, nor has his sister, Kate Edith, 
now enjoying a pleasant girlhood, and living with her mother. 
The father of this family. Dr. Samuel, died, January 24th. 1887. 

Margaretta, only daughter of Rev. Dr. Lewis, was born in 1834,] 
and in 1854 married John Bushnell. She was extremely de- 
vout and pious ; had four children, two dying in infancy. Hei 
daughter Ella married Joseph Sperry, by whom she had several] 
children, and who all reside on Jersey City Heights. Rev. Johi 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 89 

Bushnell, only son of Margaretta, graduated from Roanoke College 
in 1878, and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Salem, 
Va. He has served in the Lutheran ministry since 1882, first in 
South Carolina, then at Roanoke, Va., in Maryland, and for several 
years in Oakland, California. While in this latter State he received 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Westminster College, Ful- 
ton, Mo. He has been a frequent contributor to the Quarterly 
Review and other periodicals, and has assisted in the publication 
of several books. His address at Pen-Mar in 1890 is remembered 
by many of his friends in this section. He is now serving the 
Lebanon charge and resides in Winchester, Va. Dr. Bushnell 
married Anna Terrill and has seven children, Charles Eichelberger, 
George, Sara, John E., Terrill, Samuel and Margaretta. 

Charles Frederick, youngest son of the Rev. Dr. Lewis and his 
first wife, married in 1859, Charlotta Sperry. He was an open- 
hearted, open-handed man, of keen business foresight and intellect- 
ual powers. He had no children, but expended much parental care 
and affection in the charge of his sister Margaretta's motherless 
children, she having died while they were but mere infants, and 
her husband not long surviving her. Charles Frederick died at 
his home in Virginia, in 1895, aged but 59 years. His wife died 
some years before, and they are both buried in Virginia. 

Rev. Dr. Lewis Eichelberger was married twice, the second time 
to Penelope Lynn, daughter of John Hay, of Glenmore, Va. Her 
mother was a Miss Maury, a relative of Commodore M. F. 
Maury, of the United States Navy. The only children born to this 
second marriage were William Hay and Edward Cary. The elder 
is a prominent railroad civil engineer in the West and South, and 
was engineer in charge of building the Baltimore & Annapolis 
Short Line and Eastern Shore Railroads. He also was engaged in 
Central America, South America and Mexico, in following his 
profession. 

Edward Cary Eichelberger was first intended to be a physician 

and studied to that purpose, but circumstances made it seem best 

that he should study law. After reading law with Abraham Sharp, 

of Baltimore, he was admitted to the Bar in 1876, and to the Su- 
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preme Court of the United States in 1881. At first he associated 
himself with William Wirt Eichelberger, but after a year the latter 
retired. He has built up an extensive practice, and has adminis- 
tered many large estates. In January, 1895, he was appointed ex- 
aminer to examine candidates for admission to the Bar. He is a 
member of the Bar Association of Baltimore, a member of its Com- 
mittee of Admission of Members and also of the State Bar Associa- 
tion of Maryland. In religion he is a Presbyterian— fraternally 
he is allied with the Ben Franklin Lodge of Masons, the Royal Ar- 
canum, Golden Chain, National Union and American, in all of 
which he is active and influential. In 1897, Mr. Eichelberger was 
nominated for the Legislature by the Democratic party, but was 
defeated, although running in advance of his ticket. In 1879 he 
was married to Julia H. Sanderson, daughter of a prominent farm- 
er in Baltimore County, living at a place called '' The Plains." 
They have five children,— Julia P., Anna Lynne, Lewis Hay, Ed- 
ward Cary, Jr., and Francis Maury. This family reside at *' Hil- 
ton," their beautiful suburban home at Walbrook, which place Mr. 
Eichelberger by his efforts has greatly helped to build and beautify 
and where he has expended much thought to try to improve. 

ELIZABETH EICHELBERGER SMITH. 
The daughters of Frederick all with the exception of Catherine— 
heretofore mentioned -married and had children. Elizabeth, the 
oldest daughter to live through her childhood, as the oldest of all, 
Catherine, did not do, was born in 1786, and in 1810 when just 24 
years of age was married by Rev. David Schaeffer, to Lewis Smith, 
of Georgetown, D. C, and had three sons, William. John and 
Lewis. Mrs. Smith died in 1820 or about that time. This is all 
we know of this family. 

MA(5DALENE EICHELBERGER COPPERSMITH. 
Magdalene married a Mr. Coppersmith, of the District of Colum- 
bia, a farmer, and had three children, John, Lewis and Mary. 
The sons both died in 1854. Of Mary we know very little, except, 
that she married. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 9I 

MARY EICHELBERGER CHRISE. 

Mary, third daughter of Frederick, married a Mr. Chrise and had 
only one daughter, Susan, who afterwards married George W. Bar- 
rick, of Rocky Ridge, Frederick County, Md. This family is all 
intermarried with Eichelbergers, for the oldest son. Charles J., 
married a descendant of Joseph, youngest son of Captain Adam ; 
while a sister of Charles became the third wife of Joseph Luther, 
another great-grandchild of Captain Adam. 

SOPHIA EICHELBERGER ZIMMERMAN. 

Sophia married John D. Zimmerman and had a family of five, 
one daughter, Susan, and four sons, George, who became a physi- 
cian, Lewis, Jacob and Martin. While these were still quite young 
the family removed to Kansas, in the year 1855. Most of these 
sons afterward returned to their native State. 

SUSAN EICHELBERGER HOKE. 

Susan, daughter of Frederick, was a twin of Joseph, and they 
were the fifth children in this family, and were born October loth, 
1795. Susan married Adam Hoke about 1816, and had a family of 
five daughters, and one son, Lewis W., who only lived through 
two short summers. Ann Elizabeth married Henry M. Eberly, a 
dentist, who owned a farm in the near vicinity of his home, Mer- 
cersburg. They had seven children, all of whom are living and 
doing well, most of them west of the Mississippi river. The sec- 
ond daughter in the bevy of Susan Eichelberger Hoke's pretty 
daughters, for we are told that they were all extremely pretty and 
proved very fascinating to the students at Mercersburg College es- 
pecially, Louisa Hoke, was born in 1820, married Rev, Mr. Hofer- 
ditch, a minister of the German Reformed Church, a divine of 
devout and lovable character. He died before their family of six 
children were fully raised. Lewis, the second son, died in infancy, 
and the rest all married and have many descendants living. 

Caroline Hoke, the fourth daughter, married John Weber, a 
prominent merchant. There were three sons of this family, — 
George, John and Edward. 



go THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Maria Hoke, the prettiest of this quintette of pretty girls, was 
especially popular for her gentle manners and winnins: ways. She i 
was very much of a belle and had several offers, but her heart was I 
won by Charles F. McCauley, then a young college student, after- 
wards a very prominent divine, who became a Doctor of Divinity. 
The care of his pastorates was much lightened by his love for chil- 
dren. He was a genial man, who loved all mankind, but especial- 
ly Christ's "little ones." His old parishioners in Reading have 
put up a most beautiful memorial window in the church where he 
used to preach to them. He and Maria Hoke had eight children, 
all still living but two. The second son, Edward, was poisoned 
while out hunting in the Rocky Mountains. The rest are all doing 
well, and all are married except only the youngest son, Harry. 
The second daughter, Harriet, married in 1893. Andrew Schnebly, 
a widower, of Mercersburg, Pa. Mrs. Maria H. McCauley was a 
most lovely, gentle Christian, Xvhose good works and their results 
can only be known on that last great day when all secrets will be 
revealed. 

Harriet M. Hoke, born last in this family of Susan and Adam 
Hoke, was a mere babe when the death of that lovely, gentle 
mother came like a thunder-clap to the entire family connection. 
On account of their tender years, Adam was almost obliged, in a 
short time, to furnish his little girls with another mother. But he 
chose wisely one whom he well knew to be of an amiable and kind- 
ly nature, one whom he knew could soon win their hearts as she 
had won his own, his cousin, Hannah Hoke. They had one child, 
Hannah Margaret. But the babe Harriet grew up to be well-called 
"one of the pretty Hoke girls," and married Andrew Schnebly, of 
Maryland, the same who at her death married her niece. Harriet 
McCauley. Andrew Schnebly by his first wife had but one child, 
a promising young man, who was born in March, 1868. He 
taught, traveled, was in a bank, and in many ways had occupa- 
tions which were rounding out his character to that completeness 
we call perfection, when in October, 1899, he died. God took hira 
home. So runs the line of "Owen's Creek" Frederick and Anna 
Frena Motter. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 93 

MICHAEL EICHELBERGER. 

Michael Eichelberger, second son of Captain Adam Eichelberger, 
was born May 17th, 1765. He was a rather delicate child and man, 
though rather large in frame. To him Adam left that home farm 
near Hanover, of which in his will he speaks as " ray now dwelling 
plantation," which had been his father's. While quite young he 
married Catherine Smyser, by whom he had the five following 
children, — Adam, Michael, George, Polly and Elizabeth. Adam 
was a lad often years when his father Michael died, and poor Mrs. 
Eichelberger had her hands full enough ; George, the youngest 
child, a babe in arms, and the other three between that and ten 
years. She managed very nicely until Adam grew to manhood. 
He at the age of 21 applied to the Orphans' Court to allow him to 
buy this place ; and on the i8th of May, 1813, he received an or- 
der from that court, then sitting at York, which order, now yellow 
with age, is in my possession. In it Adam was allowed to buy 
the property for ^11,934, thus buying out the rights of his broth- 
ers, Michael and George, and his sisters, Polly and Elizabeth, giv- 
ing each $1,587.07^, and to pay his mother every year thereafter 
the sum of I238.06. At this time his sister Polly was married to 
Martin Ebert, of York. She had no children and after Mr. Ebert's 
death came back to Hanover, where for several years she lived with 
or very near the daughters of her brother George. She has been 
dead for many years. The other sister, Elizabeth or Betsy, as she 
was more commonly called, married Mr. Crum, and early in her 
married life moved West, where all trace of her descendants has 
been lost. 

SHERIFF ADAM EICHELBERGER. 

Adam, " Sheriff Adam," as he was called to distinguish hira 
from the several other Adam Eichelbergers in his native State, in 
his after life was the fulfillment of my ideal, or as near as one ever 
comes to an ideal, of manly strength and physical perfection. He 
was, as many of his race, tall and strong, but that was not all. He 
was so finely proportioned that unless one stood beside hira he did 
not seem to be so large a man. He resided on the farm until he 
married Sarah E. Wolf, whose home was near Gettysburg, in 1814, 



g4 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. j 

and then continued living there for nearly ten years, when they 
went to York. He was Sheriff of York County from 1833 to 1836, 
and emigrated to Indiana in 1837, taking all of his family but his 
daughter Susan, who stayed in York with relatives, and afterwards 
married Alfred Gartraan, of that place. The oldest daughter of 
Sheriff Adam had married Henry Beitzel, of Hanover, in 1836; 
they and the Sheriff's family all (with the exception already 
noted,) moved West together. The Sheriff and his son-in-law, 
Mr. Beitzel, built part of the first railroad in Indiana and west of 
the Alleghany Mountains, afterwards engaging in other occupa- 
tions. After a life spent for the care of others, from the death of 
his father when he was but ten years of age, down to the care of 
fatherless grandchildren, a life so full of care as to darken most 
lives, jovial, genial and hearty to the last, Adam Eichelberger died 
in Connersville, Fayette County. Indiana, on the 13th of May, 1847, 
only 56 years of age. His good wife, Sarah, four years his junior, 
preceded him to that better land by six years, dying on the nth of 
August, 1841, in the same town in Indiana. Their children were— 
Anna M., Eliza, Sarah, Louisa, Rebecca, Susan and Amanda, 
daughters, and Henry, Michael and Martin, sons. 

The eldest, Anna M., who married a Hanoverian, Henry Beitzel, 
lived in York until their migration to Indiana ; they had seven 
children : Sarah Eichelberger who married a Mr. Gentry and had 
three daughters, all married and I believe doing very well ; Benja- 
min F., killed in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June i8th, 
1864, and who never had married ; Marcellus, who married Fanny 
Henderson and raised a most interesting young son ; Irene, who 
married C. M. Walker and has two daughters, now also married ; 
Mary L., now deceased, who married a Mr. Carroll and has one son, 
Frank Beitzel Carroll, of Mt. Vernon ; Alice, now Mrs. W. B. Com- 
mons, of Richmond, Indiana, has three children, Josephine, Irene, 
and Homer ; Flora, the youngest, who married Albert Vogel, su- 
perintendent of a large organ factory at Wayne, Indiana, and has 

no children. 

Eliza Eichelberger, second child of Sheriff Adam, was born at 
York in 1817, went to Indiana and in one year's time married 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 95 

George Freybaugher, by whom she has three sons and three 
daughters, the most of whom are living in Indiana. 

Sarah, third daughter of the Sheriff, married also in Indiana, 
John M. Reed. They lived first at Cambridge, moved to New- 
castle, and in 1856 to Newton, Iowa. This family were devout 
members of the Presbyterian church there. Their children were, 
Josephine, Walter S., who died in California in 1880, Horace Mann, 
who died at the home farm in 1878, Rebecca, who died at the last 
home of this family in Indiana, Laura J., who married a Mr. Scott, 
had two sons and died in 1884, Mary Gertrude, who married a Mr. 
McCosh and has three children, all living in Newton, Iowa, and 
Miss Kate, who resides at the home place with her surviving 
parent. 

Louisa Eichelberger in 1849 married Walter Crawford, by whom 
she has one daughter. 

Rebecca, fifth daughter of Sheriff Adam, married Jesse Holton, by 
whom she has seven children, Sarah E., Augustus J., William Hen- 
ry, Charles Pay ton, Martin C, George Watson and Abraham Lincoln. 
Only the four younger ones of this family were living when I last 
heard. Their home was in Richmond, Indiana. The youngest 
son is the only one in our entire connection who, to my knowledge 
was named for our martyred President. 

Susan, as I said, became Mrs. Gartman, lived and died in York ; 
while Amanda, the youngest, married David Mount. She had 
only one child, a daughter, who married the owner of an extensive 
carriage factory in Connersville, Wm. McFarland. 

Two sons of Adam and Sarah, Henry and Michael, never mar- 
ried, but became adventurous explorers. They went out to Neva- 
da, Oregon and California in the early days of the gold fever, and 
I think died there. 

Martin, the only son of Adam and Sarah to marry, went to Kan- 
sas about 1858 or i860, married a Miss Dolph, and had one son 
Henry, who is now living in California. We could, however, find 
no trace of him, who is the only Eichelberger descendant in the 
third generation of Sheriff Adam, oldest son of Michael. 



96 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

MICHAEL EICHELBERGER, Jb. 
Michael Jr., was like his father a much more delicate man in 
build and general health, than his brothers. He married Elizabeth, 
surname unknown, but died soon after the marriage, leaving no 
children. No trace of his widow is to be found. 

GEORGE EICHELBERGER. 

George, the youngest child of Michael, Sr., was as I have said, 
only an infant at the time of his father's death, but he grew up on 
the home place, which had belonged to his great-grandfather, and 
became attached to the place, so much so that when he became of 
age he bought it, married Sarah Diehl in 1832, and raised his fam- 
ily of eight children there. George was born just one hundred 
years ago. He too was a large man, but not so large as his brother 
Adam. He became quite a prominent politician, was a Democrat, 
and there was almost no position which he might not have had 
from his party, had he wished for it. He was County Commis- 
sioner many years, and was a born political leader. He left the 
farm when his son Michael came to an age to take it, bought a 
house in Hanover, where he resided for some years prior to the 
death of his esteemed wife in 1865. He only survived her four 
years, dying at the age of 6g years. Four of his children died be- 
fore him — Anna Maria at the age of seventeen, Sarah, the name- 
sake of her mother, at the early age of four, his own namesake, 
George W. , died when 9 years old, and Michael D. , at the age of 
36 years. 

Martin, oldest son of George and Sarah, married Catherine Gei- 
selman. He was born in 1823, married in 1844, and had three sons 
and only one daughter, Mary, who married Daniel M. Herbst, of 
Hanover, by whom she had two young sons, very unfortunately 
losing one just a short time ago by the hand of that death-angel 
to whom it is so hard to reconcile our hearts. 

Martin's oldest son, George W., married Maggie Curry, had one 
child, but all, father, mother and child, have passed away. Michael 
E. , next son of Martin, married Ida Lau ; they are living in Adams 
County, and raising three sturdy young representatives of the 
name, Martin Luther, George E. and Sadie B. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 97 

Emory K. Eichelberger, youngest child of Martin and Catherine, 
married Alverta Kindig ; they have no children. They lived first 
on a farm not far from Hanover, but are now residing in that town 
on Frederick Street. Mr. Eichelberger and wife are following in 
the footsteps of their ancestors and worshiping in that Lutheran 
Church which their earlier forefathers helped to build — St. Mat- 
thew's. Martin Eichelberger died May 26th, 1889, his good wife 
preceding him but seven days. 

Michael D., next son of George and Sarah, married Elizabeth 
Hershey, took the home farm on his marriage ; there his two sons 
were born, and there he died in early manhood, the third of his 
name to settle there, marry and die before reaching their fortieth 
year. His two sons, Henry and Edward, are both married, but we 
could not find their place of residence, nor trace of their families. 

Franklin, fourth son of George, married Louisa Hershey. He 
and she are both dead now, but they lived in the upper part of 
Adams County and raised a large family. Elsie and Willie died 
young, but the rest are all married, although it was impossible to 
find the names of their matrimonial partners, or their children. 

They were, Albert E., Sarah, Hiram, Riley, Charles, Howard, Ed- 
ward, Cora and George. Their descendants will have to fill out 
this part of the record with good deeds for their descendants to 
read of. 

The youngest son of George was Charles F. He too loved the 

old Eichelberger farm, and took it at the death of his brother 

Michael. He lived upon It many years, but sold it to me about 

fourteen years ago. I have the chain of titles from him, down 

even from the grant of the Penns. From here Charles F. married 

Susan Menges, brought her here as his bride, and here his children 

were born. Ira, William, Martin and George were his sons, and 

Ella, Mrs. Bollinger, Clara, Mrs. Hershey, Addie, Mrs. Raber, and 

Jennie, Mrs. Miller, were his daughters. They and their children 

are living in York County. Ira married a Miss Baumgartner, and 

William, Ida Winters. They have children. The two younger 

sons are still single. Last Spring, Charles F. Eichelberger died, 
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very unhappily. He is buried near his home of later years, New 
Baltimore, York County. His widow still survives him. 

Louisa Catherine, youngest child of George and Sarah, and the 
only daughter of this family who survived her girlhood, is married 
and living in Hanover. She has married a descendant of Jacob 
Eichelberger, brother of Adam, her forefather, and the history of 
herself, her children and her husband, William J. Young, will be 
given at another place in this book. 

This closes the line of Michael, second son of Adam Eichelberg- 
er, Sr. 

SAMUEL EICHELBERGER. 

Samuel, the third son of Captain Adam, was born in 1769, and 
married Catherine Smyser, a young woman who bore the same 
name as the lady who had married his brother Michael, and who 
at one time we rather took to be his widow ; but the Order grant- 
ed by the Orphans' Court to allow Michael's son Adam, when he 
came of age, to take the home place, speaks of her in 1813 as the 
widow of Michael Eichelberger, so we saw our mistake, which was 
also corrected by a great-granddaughter. Samuel and Catherine 
were married in 1790. They lived on the " Mill Place," left Sam- 
uel by his father. He had also a saw-mill and the water rights 
and privileges appertaining thereto, as well as an additional hun- 
dred acres. Their children were, John Adam, who married Rebec- 
ca Nace, but had no children, and died when but 27 years of age ; 
Magdalene, who was a deaf mute and never married, but lived to 
be almost 70 years of age ; Maria Catherine, who died when only 
two, and Louisa S. at the age of four. Samuel S. and Jacob S. 
were the only sons, while Susannah, Elizabeth, Anna Catherine 
and Lida completed the list of daughters. 

SAMUEL S. EICHELBERGER, Jr. 
Samuel, Jr. , the second son, was a farmer ; he married Elizabeth 
Rudisill and had a large family, most of whom moved to Missouri. 
He was born on the "Mill Place," near Hanover, but when pre- 
pared to make a home for himself, he bought a farm in Carroll 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 99 

County, Md. He was a small dark man, while his wife was large 
and fair ; they both died in the 50's and lie buried in Maryland in 
a cemetery near their farm, Andrew, their oldest son, was born 
near Hanover, moved with them to Maryland and there married in 
1853, Isabelle Keyser. They appear to have moved first to Jeffer- 
son County, West Virginia, but soon moved to Booneville, Mo., 
and in 1866 to Pilot Grove in that State. Before leaving the East- 
ern home Andrew and his wife had joined the church of his fathers, 
but upon making their home in Missouri, they found that they 
would have to forego that privilege as there were at the time no 
English Lutheran Churches in that part of the State, so they join- 
ed with the Cumberland Presbyterians and were consistent mem- 
bers of the same to their life's end. Isabelle Eichelberger was a 
lovely Christian woman, and her husband though more aggressive 
became a strong power for good both in the church and in the com- 
munity where he made his home. He founded Pilot Grove Acad- 
emy, where one of his sons is now teaching. He died the last of 
last April, at the age of 76 years, his wife having preceded him to 
the better land in May, 1892. In September, 1893, he married 
Mrs. S. L. Phillips, who still survives him. 

Of his children, George William has become known to most of 
you by his Evangelistic meetings all over the country. Solely at 
my request, he gives the following : 

He was born on the very day on which his grandmother died, 
July 28th, 1855, and grew up on the Missouri farm. He attended 
the district school in winters as did his brothers and sisters, 
and entered McGee College, then Cumberland University, gradu- 
ating in 1878. Five years later, his Alma Mater gave him the de- 
gree of M. A. Upon leaving college his father founding Pilot 
Grove Academy, he became first Principal. Soon after he entered 
the ministry, first of the Cumberland Presbyterian, then of the 
Lutheran Church. Finally making Chicago his home, he lives 
there the most of the year, when not traveling on Evangelistic 
work — belongs now to the Northern Illinois Lutheran Synod. He 
bolds Evangelistic meetings all over the West, has held them in 
California, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, 



lOO THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania, 
He has the names of nearly thirteen thousand converts made in his 
meetings, most of whom he has received into the church. Received 
the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1899. He married Annie B. 
Bowling, of Kentucky. She died November 6th, 1896, leaving 
him one child, Roberta Bowling, born February loth, 1888. This 
child although so young, bids fair to become a prodigy as a singer, 
and when not at school accompanies her father when he is con- 
ducting services, and often sings alone, much to the delight and 
pleasure of the listeners. 

The two youngest of Andrew's children died young. James M. 
is living on a farm in the vicinity of Pilot Grove, married Alice 
Cordry, by whom he has eight living children, Jasper E., Anna B., 
Eula M., Roger, William Andrew, Gertrude, James G. and Wear. 
There are none of them yet old enough to have homes of their own, 
the oldest being only nineteen, the youngest born last April. 

Andrew Hoke Eichelberger, who being of the same as his father, 
is called "Hoke," is now teaching in the Pilot Grove Academy ; 
he was married in 1886 to Sallie Tavenner, and has four children, 
all still young people, Clara, Lillian, Bessie and Andrew, Jr. 

The only daughter of Andrew and Isabelle is Sallie Elizabeth, 
who after being educated as well as the Academy permitted, was 
brought East, near the old home of her grandfather's school days, 
at Hanover, where she spent one winter at her studies. After re- 
turning she met and married an evangelist like her brother George, 
only that he was not spared for a life of like usefulness, as he died 
in a few years after their marriage leaving his widow alone, as no 
child had come to bless their union. 

Samuel C. the second son of Samuel, Jr., was born, lived and 
died in Carroll County, Md. He married Margaret Fogel, also a 
native of Maryland. Samuel was a miller by trade, but farmed 
most of his life. They had two children, the first who died while 
still a mere infant, the second a son, George. Of this young man, 
we have not the slightest trace, I am sorry to say. Samuel, the 
father, died in the 37th year of his age. 



THE EICHELBEEGER FAMILY. lOI 

Frederick Emanuel, third son of Samuel, Jr., or Samuel Smyser 
Eichelberger, died while a lad of tender years, and the youngest 
child, Elizabeth, only lived to be two years of age. Washington 
and Adam S. both emigrated to Missouri either with or in the wake 
of their brother Andrew, as did the sister, Maria, Mrs. Mowry, who 
lives in or near Pilot Grove, She and her sister Anna, Mrs. Don- 
ner, and Jacob and Adam S. are the only living ones now of nine 
children of Samuel S. and Elizabeth. 

Washington, fourth son of this couple, was born in Maryland, in 
1836, and moved to Missouri where in 1866 he married Maria Jane 
Merritt, by whom he had six children, Jacob L., Daisy A., Thomas 
S., Myrtle, Susie A. and Nathaniel Henry. The two eldest are 
married, the daughter to Frank Oswald, and now has a little 
daughter of her own ; Jacob L. married Hattie Custer, and has 
one son, Henry. 

Jacob H., fifth son of Samuel C, lives on his farm in Frederick 
County, Md. He married Emma Freshour, who bore him two 
little girls, Clara E. and Elsie ; the mother and daughter Clara 
have died, and the father and Elsie live alone. 

Adam S., fifth son of Samuel S., married Savilla Favorite in 
1867, and has but two living children, sons, both living in Missouri. 
Harvey C, the eldest, is married to Mollie Helms, while Frank is 
still single. This closes the line of Samuel Jr., and we will now 
return to that of his father, Samuel, Sr. 

JACOB S. EICHELBERGER. 
■ Jacob S., third son of Samuel, Sr., was born in 1808, lived on 9. 
farm n^ar Hanover, York County, Pa., most of his life ; was mar- 
ried to Mary Mechlin in 1831, by whom he had nine children. Sa- 
rah E. married Barney Rudisill ; Louisa M. married Adam Smith, 
of Maryland, and had four children. Adam S. in 1861 married 
Sarah H. SchaefFer, and had two sons, Isaac S. and Alexander. 
The elder of these is a bachelor and resides in Los Angeles, Califor- 
nia, where he has a fine business prospect. His brother Alexander, 
Adam S. and wife, died while comparatively young and are buried 
in the Mennonite Cemetery on the York road. Johanna C. M., 



I02 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

third daughter of Jacob S. and Mary Mechlin, married Jacob S. 
Bealing and resides in Hanover ; they have three living children, 
all having homes in Hanover. William Henry D,, the second son 
of this family of Jacob's, volunteered in the United States Army 
during the Civil War, in 1864, as a member of Co. E, 207th Regi- 
ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. This regiment was twice pub- 
licly spoken of and thanked for the bravery of its soldier boys in 
battle. In the battle of Fort Sedgwick, April 2, 1865, young Wil- 
liam was severely wounded, and died several months later in the 
military hospital at Hampton, Virginia, aged only 20 years, 10 
months and 18 days. Joseph Monroe, the next child of Jacob, 
died in the 31st year of his age, unmarried, while his next sister, 
Mary Ellen, after living with her parents, being their solace and 
comfort through their declining years, now lives alone near the 
Fair Grounds on York Street, in Hanover. Miriam Alice, the 
youngest daughter, died when but little more than 20 years of 
age ; she lies resting for that great day in the cemetery where lie 
so many of this family — that cemetery donated by and where rest 
the ashes of the founder of this entire line. Captain Adam Eichel- 
berger. Nelson married twice, his first wife being Anna Straus- 
baugh, his next Lily Russell, but he has no children. He is a 
widower, making his home now in Hanover, now in Baltimore. 
He had only one son, who died in childhood and with whom 
closes the history of the sons of Samuel and Catharine. 

Susannah, the oldest daughter of this couple who lived to a mar- 
riageable age, was married to Henry Rudisill. a farmer, of Heidel- 
berg Township, York County, Pa. Elizabeth, the next, married 
John Bixler in 1831, while Anna Catherine married Jesse Spang- 
ler, of York. She dying in a few years, her widowed husband 
married her youngest sister, Lida. These four daughters all raised 
families and have descendants scattered over York County to-day. 

So closes the line of Samuel, the third son of Adam Eichelberger, 
who only came of age two years and eleven months after his fath- 
er's death, and who died in the 59th year of his life, leaving this 
large number of descendants who are scattered from the Golden 
Gate to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. IO3 

ADAM EICHELBERGER, JR. 

I am very sorry to say that concerning this next son, Adam 
Eichelberger, Jr., I can not give much, although I have made 
many attempts to trace the whereabouts of his thirteen children. 
Adam not only had the name but also the face and figure of his 
father, and was said to look more like him than any child he had. 
In his will his father speaks of him as "Adam, the younger." 
He left him a farm next to the " Home Farm," a place of about 
143 acres. He married at the age of 24 years Susannah Schmeizer, 
who bore him nine children, all of whom we think were born on 
this farm. Here rumor says Susannah died and Adam soon after 
sold the farm and went to Cumberland County, where he bought 
a farm and a grist mill. Shortly after this he married a widow, a 
Mrs. Forney, first name unknown, who bore him four more chil- 
dren. Adam Eichelberger, Jr., died at the early age of 48 years, 
leaving his second wife and thirteen children to survive him. He 
lies buried in the Largsdorf graveyard, near Kingston, Pa. 

Of his family, John Michael died young, George S. was in the 
War of 1812, though young for a soldier, as he was born in 1797. 
About 1816, the most of Adam's children seem to have emigrated 
to Ohio. George, Adam, Samuel and Henry all married, as did 
their sisters, Elizabeth to John Robb, second husband Harman, 
Susannah to David Orris, Sarah to John Miller, and Mary to a 
Mr. Speer ; these are all now deceased. 

Of the second marriage, Joseph remained single, Isabelle mar- 
ried a Mr. Beniser, Hettie a Mr. Crider, and Susan a Mr. Hichnell ; 
these also are deceased. Of the children of George, Samuel and 
Henry, I know nothing. If there should be any such living, they 
can by this trace their lineage. 

Also, of Adam, son of Adam, Jr., I know only of two sons, Wil- 
liam and Simon. This Adam settled in Ashland, Ohio, and died 
there only a few years ago, within a few days of the great age of 
90 years. His son Simon resides there yet as a retired farmer. 
He was born in April, 1827, i" Cumberland County, Pa., and has 
married and has four living children, one daughter and three sons, 
each the head of a family. William Eichelberger, grandson of 



I04 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Adam, Jr., was born in 1831, and died in Indiana in 1893. He 
married Susan Mell, by whom he had ten children, eight now liv- 
ing, five sons— John Adam, William Allen, Benjamin Franklin, 
Harvey A. and Joseph Elmer ; one residing in Ohio, two in Indi- 
ana and two in Illinois, all married and having children. Of the 
daughters, Celesta married Jerome Boyer ; and Celia, Charles 
Shoesmith ; while Ella is still single. 

Adam, Jr., and his sons as well as grandsons, all seem to have 
been either farmers or millers, while the younger generation ap- 
pear to be business men. 

JOSEPH EICHELBERGER. 
Joseph, the fifth son of Captain Adam, was born in 1781, down 
on the "Home Farm," and was only six years of age when his 
father died. In that father's will we read that he " wished Joseph 
to be taught the English reading, writing and sivering as far as 
the rule of three," also that "he shall be bound out to learn some 
trade— what he himself shall prefer, that he shall be able to sup- 
port himself thereby." We have receipts received by Magdalene 
for the schooling of all four of these young children, for whom 
their kind father thought so far ahead, when most likely he was 
ill and suffering. The trade chosen by Joseph was tanning, which 
in those days was an exceedingly lucrative business. He lived 
with his mother until over the time of all his learning— both of 
books and business. From then on for a few years we lose sight 
of him, but think he went direct to Greencastle, at least we find 
him living there engaged in the tannery trade and soon marrying. 
He married Martha Dicks, of that place. To them five children 
were born, James M., Job Dicks, Joanna, Josephine, and Lewis 
AA^ho died quite young. Joseph lived but a short time after his 
marriage ; indeed his youngest son, Lewis, was born shortly after 
his father's death. Joseph was a very popular man and would 
doubtless have filled positions of trust and profit, had he but lived 
longer, as he is spoken of as having "hosts of friends." 

Captain Adam's estate was not quite settled up yet at the time 
of his youngest son's death. We have receipts from "Martha 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I05 

Eichelberger " for some of her husband's share, he having gotten 
some of it before. Sorely must she have needed, poor soul, not so 
much financial assistance, but aid and sympathetic kindness. 

Magdalene Eichelberger was a capable woman, and much were 
her capabilities put to service. Like many another good woman 
whose husband receives public encomiums, her husband's time 
was entirely taken up with the services which won for him those 
praises, and Magdalene was obliged to look out for her family. 
This as we well know was by no means small ; and these four, — 
Susannah, Adam, Joseph and Salome, were brought up by her al- 
most entirely alone. Then at Joseph's death, she was obliged to 
go and stay for some time with his forlorn young wife and little 
children. 

Joseph lies buried in Greencastle as does his widow, but it was 
sixteen years before she was laid beside him. She kept the small 
farm which Joseph was buying near Greencastle, finished paying 
for it with the rest of the money still coming to him from his fath- 
er's estate, moved on this farm and there brought up her children. 

Dr. JAMES W. EICHELBERGER. 
James W., the eldest, at the age of 17, launched out for himself, 
first clerking for a storekeeper in Emmitsburg, Md. He attended 
school in Carlisle, Pa., then studied medicine with Short Sc Moore, 
in Emmitsburg, pursued his studies at the University of Maryland, 
from which institution he received his diploma in the session of 
1826-27. He then practised medicine in Fayetteville, Pa., then on 
his farm near Rocky Ridge, Md., then in Woodsboro and from 
there went to Emmitsburg in 1843, where he remained until called 
from his labors. He was a staunch Whig and Republican, and was 
devoted to his profession. He served his town as Commissioner at 
various times, and was a strictly temperance man. He was a 
member of the Lutheran Church, almost always a member of the 
council, took great interest in its welfare, and was acquainted with 
hundreds of its ministers. He married Anna M. Motter, of Em- 
mitsburg, in 1828, and they lived happily together until 1888 when 

his wife died ; he survived her until 1895. They were blessed 
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with eight children, — Gustavus M., Mary E,, Motter, Charles D., 
Marian F., Columbia M., James W. and AnnaM. Four have died, 
Gustavus M., Motter, Columbia M. and Anna M. 

Charles D. and James W. both studied medicine and graduated 
from the University of Maryland, Charles D. in 1868 and James W. 
in 1870. James W. located at St. Clairsville, Pa., where he re- 
mained five years, then went to Emmitsburg, to relieve his father. 
Charles D. has a drug store there, is single as is also his sister Ma- 
rian F. Columbia M. died in 1852, single. Dr. James W., Jr., 
married in 1864 Minnie Hoke. They have one child, Charles Dicks 
Eichelberger, Jr. Of the daughters of Dr. James and Anna Motter 
(who by the way is likely a descendant of the same family as the 
wife of Joseph's brother, Frederick,) the only ones to marry, were 
Mary Elizabeth, now a widow, Mrs. C. J. Ehrhart, whose husband 
was a minister ; they had no children. The other, Anna Margaret, 
married E. L. Rowe and has one child, a daughter. The living 
ones of this family are all in Emmitsburg. 

JOB DICKS EICHELBERGEE. 

Job Dicks, the second son of Joseph, became a farmer boy near 
Rocky Ridge, Md. He was born in 1808, and in 1832 he married 
Amy Anna Boomer, by whom he had five children. His wife died 
in 1850 and in 1851 he married Maria H. Cloud, and they had five 
children also. Job Dicks died in 1881, his second wife still surviv- 
ing him as his widow. Of his first set of children, Anna Margaret, 
the oldest, married Benjamin Durall, now deceased ; they have 
one son. Wilbur H., now living in Frederick, Md. The second 
child of Job, Joseph N., as well as Elizabeth Jane and John James, 
died without issue ; while the youngest child by the first marriage, 
Emma Joanna, married Charles J. Barrick, of Rocky Ridge, Md. 
This couple had six children, two of whom died in 1887. 

Of the second family of Job D., the oldest daughter, Mary F., 
married Benjamin Gobin, of Johnstown, Pa., she is the only one 
of this family who married. The otfiers are Martha D., Melvina 
Rebecca, Helen Maria and Maria H. 

Of the daughters of Joseph and Martha, the eldest, Joanna, mar- 
ried a Mr. Miller and had quite a family. The other daughter, Jo- 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. T07 

sephine, married a Mr. Otto, of Maryland, and also has quite a 
family. 
This closes the line of Joseph, fifth son of Captain Adam. 

ELIZABETH EICHELBERGER HOKE. 

Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Adam, was born on the "Home 
Farm," three miles from Hanover, Pa., in 1771, and was 16 years 
old when her father died. In his will bespeaks of " my minor 
children, Adam and Joseph, Susan and Salome." So evidently a 
girl of sixteen years was supposed not, in those days, to be a mi- 
nor. She must have married Michael Hoke very soon thereafter, 
for in the settlement of Adam's estate we have releases from Mi- 
chael Hoke, as at that time a wife's property belonged to her hus- 
band alone. They had nine children, six sons, — George, Adam, 
John, Jacob, Michael and William ; and three daughters, — Sarah, 
Magdalene and Elizabeth. 

Michael Hoke, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth, were buried at the 
"Old Stone Church," but were later removed to the cemetery at 
Mercersburg by their son Adam. Here in this cemetery many of 
their descendants lie, principal of whom are their two oldest sons, 
George and Adam. The third son, John, lived and died in Char- 
lestown, Va., where he is buried. But of any of the rest of this 
family we have no history at all ; they must be either deceased or 
very old people, as the youngest child, William, was born in 1812. 
Elizabeth died at the age of 63 years ; all I can hear of her is that 
she was " such a pretty girl." Her husband was a farmer and a 
tanner, a man of strength of purpose and will, if one can believe 
the forecast of his handwriting. 

Family rumor gives it that this family moved to North Carolina 
after the birth of the children, but whether the father and mother 
did is not stated authentically, although some of the children un- 
doubtedly did. 

SALOME EICHELBERGER CREMER. 
Salome, third daughter of Captain Adam, was born in 1783. She 

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was left fatherless when only four years of age, but her good father 



I08 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

provided for his two little girls, Susan and Salome, as best he 
could. We have receipts for the education of Salome, as well as 
the others. She spent the most of her girlhood with her mother 
in that "little house down nigh by the spring," and did not marry 
as young as did most girls of her time. One can readily see how 
necessary she became to her dear mother, for she was just 21 when 
her sister Susannah died. Joseph had married just the year be- 
fore, and the mother hated to give up her youngest with whom 
she then lived alone, but Henry Cremer finally carried her away. 
They were married in 1812. Mr. Cremer was a farmer and lived 
four miles below Hanover. They had only two children, sons, 
Joseph Eichelberger and Charles. Salome Cremer lived to be 73 
years old, outliving her husband by many years. She died in 
Hanover at her son's residence. 

JOSEPH EICHELBEKGER CREMER. 
Joseph became a merchant and married in 1842 Rebecca Wirt. 
They had only two sons, Charles Edward and Henry Wirt Cre- 
mer. Neither married, but both lived lives of usefulness and were 
strict, upright business men. Charles died in 1883, but Harry sur- 
vived him eight years. In the '* Swope History," Charles is spok- 
en of as a most polished and elegant man, well travelled, and a 
man of infinite resources. His brother was more retiring, but 
fully as well equipped for the enjoyment of life— in other ways, 
perhaps. 

CHARLES CREMER, Sr. 

Charles, Sr., the younger son of Salome and Henry Cremer, was 
born in 1815, and about the year 1838 was married to Polly Bol- 
linger, of Hanover. They had five children. Salome went to 
Dickinson County, Kansas, with her husband, Mr. Bender. They 
have several children, two of whom are studying in Philadelphia, 
to fit themselves for professional lives. John Adam Cremer, liv- 
ing in Hanover, is an invalid pensioner of the United States Army, 
of the Civil War. He married Catherine ReifFand has by her four 
children,— Frank Eugene, Mary Katherine, Charles Henry and Jo- 
seph Eichelberger. Frank E. Cremer is proprietor of a profitable 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. lOQ 

floral and gardening greenhouse, at 223 Walnut Street, Hanover, 
near where the whole family of John Adam Cremer reside. 

His next sister lived with their widowed mother for several 
years, Charles having died in his 42d year. Anna Maria Cremer 
then married a Mr. Wolf, also of Hanover, but soon was left alone 
as her mother and husband lived but a short while after the mar- 
riage. She is now residing alone on Abbottstown Street, Hanover. 

The next brother, Joseph Eichelberger Cremer, became a dry- 
goods merchant, but only lived a short time after establishing him- 
self in that business, dying before he was quite 30 years of age in 
1876. 

Amelia Cremer, the youngest of this family, died when only 17 
years of age. 

SUSANNAH EICHELBERGER. 

The other daughter of Captain Adam, Susannah, was also a child 
for whose education her father left instructions in his will. But 
she did not live to enjoy that education long, for from a delicate 
girlhood she passed away at the age of 26 years. She is buried 
near her father. 

Magdalene, the mother of this family, left a widow in the prime 
of womanhood, with these four little ones to be sure, but with four 
stalwart sons to aid her in her cares, lived a quiet, devoted, Chris- 
tian life, bringing up these children, seeing two of them pass away 
before her, but going on in the even tenor of her way until she 
died on the 30th of December, 1821. She was laid beside the hus- 
band she had loved so well. 

So closes the line of Captain Adam Eichelberger and his descend- 
ants down to the sixth and seventh generations. 



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Jacob Eichelberger. 

Second Son of Philip Frederick and his second Wife, Magdalene. 



Jacob Eichelberger, the second son of Philip Frederick and his 
second wife, Magdalene Eichelberger, was born September 26th, 
1746, on the " Farm." He chose his home to be in Hanover, Pa. 

There is almost an established rule about these elder Jacobs and 
Fredericks of our name ; the first seem to be almost altogether 
scribes and committeemen who served the cause of the Revolution ; 
the Fredericks were nearly all large landholders or statesmen. 
This Jacob was no exception to the rule ; he was much interested 
in the cause of the war, gave largely of his means, and wrote and 
attended to business matters connected with his own town and 
township. There are letters now preserved which he wrote to the 
Committee of Safety at York. To this ancestor it was left to in- 
troduce the touch of romance necessary in any book. Anna Maria 
Reinacker became the "light of his eyes," but why he thought it 
necessary to carry her off, we cannot say ; we only know that he 
did. She may have been so young that her parents could not give 
their consent, but deponent sayeth not. She was the oldest daugh- 
ter of Captain Caspar Reinacker, who served as a Captain in the 
Revolutionary War with honor and credit, 

JACOB EICHELBERGER, Jr. 

Jacob and Anna Maria had only one child, a son, Jacob Eichel- 
berger, Jr., who was born in 1775. He acquired fine business 
qualities early in life, by the side of his father. The father and 
son settled up several estates and carried on a great deal of busi- 
ness together, so that when the father was called of God in 181 1, 
he left a son fully equipped to take his place. Jacob, Sr., was first 
buried in the graveyard of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, of 
which he had long been a consistent member and part founder. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. Ill 

Afterwards his remains were removed to Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 
also of Hanover. He had run a farm and a tavern as well ; both 
of these the son, Jacob, took upon the death of his father. 

Jacob, Jr., became quite prominent in the borough of Hanover, 
for a great many years. When the little village was incorporated 
as a borough in 1815, the meetings necessary to the same were 
held in the house of Jacob Eichelberger, Jr. The tavern which 
be kept was long known as the "Stage Office," and is now the 
Central Hotel. He also became a merchant, and in connection 
with all his other duties settled up many estates for relatives and 
others. He was the first President of the Maryland Line Turnpike 
Company, and was active in organizing the Hanover Saving Fund 
Society, of which he became President in 1835, and served as such 
with great acceptance for a number of years. He died in 1843. 
He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Nace ; and after her death 
to Maria, daughter of Christian Wirt, of Hanover. 

LOUISA EICHELBERGER TRONE. 

His first wife bore him four daughters, Louisa, Maria, Eliza and 
Susannah. The first married George Trone and bore him four 
daughters and five sons. Louisa Trone was a mild and gentle 
woman ; her health became very delicate, but her Christian grace 
and fortitude upheld her. Her husband was an old-time shoe- 
maker. He was a great wit, and an ardent politician ; his sole de- 
light in that line lay in argument. Of their daughters, Anna Ma- 
ria, the oldest, married Adam Hinkle, but in a very short time 
thereafter, died, leaving no issue. Louisa Elizabeth Trone, the 
next daughter, married Daniel Q. Albright ; they lived in Hanover 
where Mr. Albright kept a tavern and later a bookstore. This 
couple had no children. 

The next, Catherine M. Trone, married Absalom G. Schmidt, a 
druggist, of Hanover. Their children numbered four, — Martha 
Louisa, Ambrose, George and Catherine. Martha is single, and 
resides in Washington, D, C. Ambrose, formerly a druggist like 
his father, and at first with him, then as the call he long had heard 
became stronger, he gave up business and fitted himself for that 



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ministry which he has since served so well. He is now the Field 
Secretary of Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa. He 
married Alda StaufFer, of Lancaster, They have had two little 
sons, but only one is now living. They reside in Lancaster.— 
George, the second son, is married, and has four bright boys. He 
is now engaged in the Government Printing Office, Washington, 
but his family reside at Hanover. Catherine M. Schmidt, the 
youngest child, lived first with her parents, then with her sister in 
Baltimore, but while there married a Mr. Nagle, of Washington, 
where she now resides; they have one little son, Ralph Nagle. 
Mr. Nagle is employed in the United States Pension Office. 

Pamela Trone, next daughter of Louisa and George, has always 
been a woman of sterling qualities, the prop and companion of her 
parents' declining years. She made a home for them as long as 
they lived, and then for her brother Daniel until after his death. 
Then she moved to the home of her sister, Mrs. Albright, and is 
now living there with her niece. 

George Eichelberger Trone learned the carpenter's trade, after- 
wards carried on cigarmaking, and later bought a farm near town, 
on which he resided until his death in 1890. He married Amelia 
Stark, of Hanover ; they had only two children who lived through 
babyhood, Ella O. and Maurice. The former married Dr. John A. 
Melsheimer, a popular young physician of Hanover ; they too have 
a daughter and a son, Amelia and Frederick. Dr. Melsheimer is 
a descendant of one of the first Lutheran pastors in this part of the 
country, Rev. Frederick Melsheimer. Maurice Trone is one of the 
young men of Hanover who helps to give the town its proper and 
necessary gayety. He was educated to become a lawyer, but a 
severe illness put a veto on that, and he is now engaged in one of 
the large works on the outskirts of Hanover. He is a graduate of 
the State College, and served as a volunteer in the recent war with 

Spain. 

Albert Eichelberger Trone, the oldest son of Louisa and George, 
was born in Hanover and spent his early manhood there, but about 
1870 he went to Florida, where he lived many years building and 
planting a home and an orange grove. In 1890 he mysteriously 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. TI3 

died in such a manner as to make his relatives fear foul play. He 
never married. 

Matthias Edmund, his next brother, in 1851 married a most 
beautiful and charming girl, Catherine J. Hinkle, who bore him 
one daughter, Emily J. But although the skies looked so pleasant 
for this young couple at the outset, the husband being a scholarly 
man who would have made his mark in the world, the skies soon 
clouded over, for in 1853 the young husband died and his wife only 
survived him six years. Their little orphan fell into the best of 
hands ; Mr. and Mrs. Albright took her and all who knew "Auntie 
Lou" Albright, remember that she was a most tender mother to 
her brother's little daughter ; and she was repaid for that tender 
care. All Hanover knows Emily J. Trone, and knows too that to 
those in sorrow or in trouble she is one of the first to come ; those 
who are in need, in poverty's bitter clutch, always look to her, as 
she is the true friend of those who see trouble. 

Daniel E. Trone, although very delicate physically, was a keen 
business man with gentle manners and loving heart. He was for 
years a telegraph operator, agent of the Adams Express Company, 
and a freight and passenger agent at Hanover ; then engaged in 
the cigar manufacturing business, and served as teller in the Han- 
over Savings Bank. He never married, and has been dead for 
some years. 

Samuel E. Trone was for a long time engaged as a merchant in 
Hanover, but has retired and spends his days looking after his 
farm in the country and his home in the town. He is a veteran of 
the Civil War, greatly interested in the G. A. R., and a loyal and 
public-spirited citizen. About 1868, he married Louisa Thomas ; 
their family consists of a daughter Mabel, who married Harry G. 
Schriver, a dealer in horses on a large scale ; they have no chil- 
dren ; and a son Ralph, a gay young bachelor and business man. 
of his native place. 

MARIA EICHELBERGER YOUNG. 

Maria, second daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth, married Jacob 
Young, of Hanover, and bore him seven children. Alexander 

married Rebecca Felty, and had four children, Mrs. Levi H. Eckert, 

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jj. THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

George W., Miss Rebecca and Jacob H. Mrs. Eckert bas one liv- 
ing son, Paul, and George W. Young, one daughter, Ada. Rebec- 
ca and Jacob live with their mother, who is a widow. The whole 
family reside in Hanover. Edward married Elizabeth Alexander, 
and had but one son, Hugh, who has also married and lives in Bos- 
ton, Mass.; he has children as well. Maria Louisa married Henry 
L. Sprenkle, and had two children. Hamilton, who lives with his 
wife and four children in Hanover. He married Anna George, and 
their children are, Arthur, Walter, Emma and Louise. Mary J. 
Sprenkle married a fellow-townsman, John Luther Long, a lawyer, 
of Japanese story fame ; they reside in Ashbourne, a Phila- 
delphia suburb, and have a promising son. Bayard Henry Long. 
Henry A. Young married Catherine Reiff, and after her death, her 
sister, Elizabeth, but by neither wife had he any children. Jacob 
Young and wife are both deceased, as indeed are all the Young 
family so far as I have given them. The second child, who re- 
mained single, was a daughter, Ann Eliza, now also dead. The 
only ones living are the two younger sons, Cornelius, who married 
Mary Bechtel and has an only daughter, Alverta, residing with her 
parents in Hanover ; and William Jacob, who married a daughter 
of George Eichelberger, himself a grandson of Captain Adam 

Eichelberger. 

William Jacob aud Louisa Catherine Young have a family of ten- 
children, nearly all of whom are now residing in Hanover near 
their parents. Of them, Ida married John H. Brough, who is a 
prominent man in Hanover, engaged in the insurance and tele- 
phone business ; they have three children, now busied with their 
studies, Charles Y., Katie and Myra. Sarah married George A. 
Klinefelter, a native of Hanover, now extensively engaged in the 
steam laundry business in Baltimore ; they had two children, a son 
who died quite young, and a daughter, Katie, now a young lady. 
Robert L. moved to Omaha, Nebraska, is married to Nellie Morris, 
and has one son, William. Cora is married to a physician of her 
native town. Dr. Horace M. AUeman. The doctor has a large 
practice. They have one son, Winneraore Young. Grace M. has } 
married Harry C. Naill, a young lawyer and politician ; they have 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. II5 

but two little ones, Richard Young and Catherine Elizabeth. An- 
na Katherine lately married Frank H. Jenkins, a most promising 
druggist of Hanover, Edward B. is single, and has a position in 
Baltimore. Carrie A., Helen E. and Henry William live at home. 

ELIZA EICHELBERGER BARNITZ. 

Eliza, third daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth, married a descend- 
ant of Martin Eichelberger, of his daughter Susan who married 
Daniel Barnitz. Eliza of this family married Michael Barnitz and 
bad but two children, a son, Covington, and a daughter. Elizabeth. 
The latter married Rev. Joseph A, Seiss, D. D., LL. D., of Phila- 
delphia. Dr. Seiss is a very noted divine, not only of his own 
church — the Lutheran, but he has written books of religious teach- 
ing and thinking, that have made him known all over the Chris- 
tian world. He has preached the Word of God, lo ! these many 
years, has also been for many years a Doctor of Divinity as well as 
a Doctor of Laws. He is Dean of the Lutheran Divinity School, in 
Philadelphia, as well as has charge of the Church of the Holy 
Communion, in that city. Mrs. Seiss, like many a wife of a good- 
ly man, was obliged to be a little troubled about many things 
while her children were small, but later she was enabled to assist 
her husband, until her health failed. She bore him five children, 
and last Spring died in the fulness of Christ's blessing. Helen 
Seiss married Henry M. Vanderslice, D. D. S.; they live in Phila- 
delphia, and had one daughter Ethel, who died in 1884. Dr. Ralph 
Seiss, the youngest child, has become a noted specialist, in the 
practice of medicine, in that same city. He married Virginia Tay- 
lor, but has no children. Mary, Covington Few and Lennie, are 
residing in Philadelphia with their father ; the daughters not only 
giving the home that so needed feminine touch, but being able to 
do much good in their father's parish, while the son is fast becom- 
ing a scientist in his love for animate nature. None of the three 
have married. 

Covington D. Barnitz has been for many years a lawyer in Balti- 
more. He has held positions of public trust, and has long been 
one of the most popular members of that Bar. He married Anna 



H6 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Covington Claggett, who bore him three children, one son, John 
Covington, who died in infancy, and two daughters, Annie C, who 
married Brice R. Worthington, of Baltimore, in 1891, and who is 
now a widow, who has also lost her two infant children by the 
angel of death. The other has not married, but resides, as does 
her sister, with her parents. During the winter the family reside 
in Baltimore, but spend the Summer months in Westminster, Md., 
where Mr. Barnitz, the father, owned a farm, and where both he 
and his wife are buried. 

SUSANNAH EICHELBERGER. 

Susannah, fourth daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth, lived only 
through childhood. She was buried in St. Matthew's Cemetery, at 
Hanover. 

Upon the death of Elizabeth, Jacob, as soon thereafter as was 
pleasant to himself, sought and obtained in marriage, the hand of 
Maria, daughter of Christian Wirt, of Hanover. She bore him a 
family of three daughters,— Catherine, Amanda and Amelia ; and 
five sons,— Matthew, Jacob, Henry, Abdiel W. and Rufus A. 

MATTHEW EICHELBERGER. 

Matthew settled in Abbottstown, became a merchant there ; later 
moved to Gettysburg, became a director in a bank and in railroads 
and other business enterprises. He lived there many years. His 
wife was a widow, whose maiden name was Sarah Tucker ; they 
had no children. He left a large sum of money to be given in 
charity, and also for the cause of Missions ; as well as for the Lu- 
theran Theological Seminary, at Gettysburg. He died there, but 
is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover, as is his wife who sur- 
vived him but one year. 

The following is from the Hanover, Pa., Herald, of May 27, 

1893 : — 

Deatli of Matthew Eichelberger. 

One of Gettysburg's oldest and mostly respected citizens died on 
Tuesday morning, when Mr. Matthew Eichelberger, a native of this 
place, breathed his last. Mr. Eichelberger was born Oct. 27, 1807, 
and was the eldest son of Jacob Eidielberger, years ago one of Hano- 
ver's most prominent citizens. Capt. A. W. Eichelberger and his sis- 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. Hy 

ter, Miss Amelia Eichelberger, of Frederick Street, alone survive of 
this once large family. Deceased was ill from the infirmities of age 
for a number of months. He was until recently a director in the Get- 
tysburg Gas Company, and was one of the heaviest stockholders in it 
and in the Gettysburg National Bank. Up to its sale to the Western 
Maryland he was a Director in the Hanover Branch and H. J., H. & 
G. Railroad Companies. Years ago, he conducted an extensive store 
business at Abbottstown, but for over thirty years had lived at Gettys- 
burg, retired from active business. He leaves a widow but no chil- 
dren. 

The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon, the remains beino- 
brought here on the 2.37 train, after services at Gettysburg. The fun- 
eral cortege proceeded from the depot to Mount Olivet Cemetery 
where the interment was made on the family lot of decedent, the ser- 
vices being conducted by his pastor. Rev. L. S. Black, of the College 
Lutheran Church, at Gettysburg. Rev. Dr. Hay, his former pastor, 
was also in attendance. Several years ago the deceased had erected 
on his burial lot a magnificent granite monument which marks his last 
resting place. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 
Jacob, the next son, was born, as were all of these children, in 
Hanover. The following sketch of his life was clipped from the 
Hanover Spectator of Nov. 9th, 188 1 : 

Death of a Former Resident. 

On Saturday a telegram was received by the Messrs. Eichelberger, 
from Oxford, Calhoun County, Alabama, conveying the sad intelli- 
gence of the death of their brother, Mr. Jacob Eichelberger, at his res- 
idence near that place, very suddenly on Friday last, Nov. 4th. The 
deceased was the second son of the late Jacob Eichelberger, Esq., one 
of our oldest and most esteemed citizens, who was prominently identi- 
fied with the earlier history of our town, and senior brother to Captain 
A. W., Henry and Rufus A. Eichelberger, and junior brother of Mat- 
thew Eichelberger, Esq., of Gett>sburg. He was born August 28th, 
i8ii, in the old Central Hotel building, on the corner of Frederick 
Street and the Square, and during his youth passed one term at Dick- 
inson College, Carlisle. Before attaining his majority in 1828 he re- 
moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he learned the tanning business 
under Mr. Daniel Hostetter, remaining two years. In 1830 he return- 
ed East, and after working two years at his trade in New York City, 
his health failed, and in 1832 he removed to Edgefield, South Carolina, 
where he engaged in tanning and merchandising until 1836, when he 



jl8 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 1 

a^ain returned East, locating at Abbottstown, Adams County, where 
he was engaged for about a year in the tanning business. In 1840 he 
again removed South, locating in Troup County, Georgia, where he 
remained until 1843, when he removed to Wehadkee, Randolph Coun- 
ty, Alabama, where he remained until 1866, when he removed to Ox- 
ford, Calhoun County, Alabama, retaining his interest in the extensive 
flouring mills and cotton mills located at Wehadkee and Rock Mills, 
that State. During the continuance of the troublous times in the 
South during the Rebellion, Mr. Eichelberger maintained his unswerv- 
ing loyalty to the cause of the Union, and his devotion to the old flag 
commanded the admiration and respect of his Confederate neighbors. 
At the close of the war he devoted much attention to the amelioration 
of the suffering freedmen. He was of a genial and kindly disposition, 
and esteemed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He 
leaves a widow and six children, two sons and four daughters, all 
grown. He was in his 71st year. 

Jacob married Assenath Scoggins in 1840, in Troup County, Ga. 
She died in Randolph County, Alabama, in 1870. The following 
year he married Mrs. Charlotte Allen, of Calhoun County, Ala- 
bama. In nearly all the places where he made a sojourn, he had 
bought a plantation, so after his death there were farms for each 
of the six children who survived him, Elizabeth, Charles Wirt. 
Catherine, Mary, Martha and George W. Those who had died 
young were Anna Maria, John \V. and Jacob. 

Elizabeth Eichelberger, oldest child of Jacob, married Jesse Gar- 
rett ; they had two girls, Mary Kate and Sarah Jane. The Gar- 
rett family moved to Texas in 1882, where Jesse breathed his last 
in 1891. His widow married A. B. Mullins Jan. 26, 1893 ; he died 
in 1895, and she is still living. Mary Kate Garrett, born in Ala- 
bama, married W. B. DeArman, in Texas ; they have seven chil- 
dren, none yet married but residing at home. Sarah Jane, her 
sister, also born in Alabama, married C. L. Cunningham in Texas, 
by whom she had nine children, -three of whom, Jesse H., Kate S. 
and Mattie, are dead. George Eichelberger, Louis B., Abdiel W.,. 
Charles L., Mary E. and Elma R., are young folks, living at homej 
and pursuing their studies. 

Charles W. Eichelberger, the second child of Jacob and Assen- 
ath, lives in Randolph County, Ala. In 1865, he was married to 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. Iig 

Nancy Thomas Brooks, by whom he had four children, Stella B,, 
(deceased,) Pauline, Jacob and Maggie, all living. Their mother 
dying in 1880, Charles W. in 1881 married Irene Taylor, by whom 
he has two children, Katherine and Charles H. 

Catherine Eichelberger, the second daughter of Jacob, was in 
1866 married to John M. Sudduth, of Alabama. They too took 
the Texas fever and in 1880 moved there. Mrs. Sudduth died in 
1882. Her children were Anna M., John W., Charles V., Ora A., 
Mary C, Estelle and Jacob L. Of these only Charles, Ora, Anna 
and Estelle are living. The father died in 1889. Anna M. Sudduth 
is married to H. R. Mullins, M. D., of Wise County, Texas. She 
has five living children, the eldest under fifteen, all at their books. 
Ora M. Sudduth married R. F. Forrester, of Oklahoma ; they had 
two children, Maggie L., who died in 1893, and George W., who 
is still living. 

Mary, the third daughter of Jacob, lives at Rock Mills, Alabama. 
She was married while very young to Thomas Holly, of that place, 
a large-hearted and jovial man, who had an extensive cotton gin- 
ning plant, which was a good business in the South. He died in 

1890 ; his widow and seven children are still living. Mary Ida 
Holly married Dr. Glove M. Truitt, a physician with a fast-grow- 
ing practice ; they have three little ones. Carro-Belle Holly in 

1891 married William White, son of one of the oldest planters and 
best beloved physicians in all that country. George W. Holly, 
who is becoming a thriving merchant, married, and has a little 
daughter, Irene Holly. Charles Wirt Holly, a new beginner, but 
one who bids fair to outstrip all the older planters, was married 
lately to Anna M. Green. The three remaining daughters, Martha, 
Kate and Amelia E., live with and for their dear mother. One or 
two of these girls have fine positions as young business women, 
these brave girls of 1900. 

Martha, youngest daughter of Jacob, in 1879 married George 
Cunningham, of Alabama, a genial Southern planter of the new 
school. She died in 1886. but her husband and three children still 
survive, Newton Eichelberger, James Pratt and Mary Katherine, 
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120 THE BICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

George W. Eichelberger, youngest child of Jacob and Assenath, 
was the son with or near whom the father spent his declining 
years ; he married, a few years after his father's marriage to the 
mother, a daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Allen, of Alabama, Emma 
French Allen. He has been since boyhood a progressive business 
man. Soon after his marriage he became proprietor of large clay 
moulding works, in New Oxford, Alabama, and also ran a large 
plantation near there. His children were all born in that State, 
but last year he sold out all of his interests in Alabama, and bought 
a large plantation in Georgia, near Savannah, where he now re- 
sides. His children are, Paul M., aged 19, Annie R., the only one 
not living with her parents, having in 1899 married a Mr. Turner, 
of New Oxford, Ala.; the next son died in infancy ; George R., a 
fine manly boy who died last Summer ; Sallie Mae, John Abdiel, 
Amanda B., a twin with little Amelia B., who died when but one 
year old ; Augustus L., Albert Wirt and Rufus Alton, all of whom 
reside in the new home in Georgia. 

HENRY EICHELBERGER. 
No more can be said, or rather the life of Henry Eichelberger 
can be no more truthfully told, than in the notice of his death, as 
published in the Hanover Spectator below. But of his kindness of 
heart, his plain but pleasant ways, his many endearing qualities, 
none but his family can know or remember. With him, as with 
the other brothers of this family, one can only tell those who are 
proud of the family name for integrity and business principles as 
well as true charity and religious feeling, there is none of the race 
who have done more to uphold it in these respects. As did his 
brother Matthew, Henry Eichelberger did much for the cause of 
true charity, and many of Hanover's poor to-day have cause to 
bless his name. 

Death of Henry Eichelberger. 

We regret to be called upon this issue to chronicle the death of 
another of our oldest and most prominent citizens, in the person of 
Mr. Henry Eichelberger, who died at an early hour on Friday morn- 
ing last, February 28th, 1890, at his residence on Frederick Street, 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 121 

after a brief illness of pneumonia, in his 77th year. Deceased was a 
son of Jacob Eichelberger, a well-known merchant and hotel keeper of 
our town half a century ago, and a brother of Capt. A. VV. Eichelber- 
ger, President of the Baltimore & Hanover Railroad. He was a tan- 
ner by trade, and engaged in that business in Hanover and Abbotts- 
town some 45 years ago, since which time he had been living retired. 
He was one of the largest real estate holders in the community, own- 
ing eight valuable farms, including a fine mill property near Nevv Ox- 
ford, all within a radius of some six miles of this place, and leaves an 
estate estimated at $150,000. Mr. Eichelberger was a prominent man 
in the community, and enjoyed the high esteem of all who knew him 
for his unswerving integrity of character and steadforwardness of pur- 
pose. As a business man he was most successful, being possessed of a 
high order of intelligence and judgment, and invested the greater por- 
tion of his money in real estate in preference to all other investments, 
as the most profitable and secure, never indulging in wild or rash spec- 
ulations, no matter how alluring the temptation might be. His judg- 
ment in financial matters was never at fault, and he was frequently 
consulted in matters of this kind by friends and acquaintances who de- 
sired his opinion regarding investments. Notwithstanding his great 
wealth he was plain and unpretentious in his habits, and was easy of 
approach by the poorest and most humble. He was never married. 

His funeral took place at half-past 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon 
in the presence of a large funeral concourse. Rev. Charles M. Stock, 
pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, officiating. 

The following article from the Lutheran Observer, of March 14th, 
1890, is from the pen of his pastor, Rev. Dr. Stock : — 

Henry Eichelberger — A Faithful Steward. 

Entered into rest, February 28th, 1890, Henry Eichelberger, of St. 
Mark's church, Hanover, Pa., aged 76 years, 4 months and i day. 

As the pastor of the deceased, I want to add a few words to this 
brief announcement. Under the circumstances it is befitting that 
I should do so. Every pastor has a few men in his congregation 
whom he regards as especially faithful and eminently useful. Very 
prominent among this circle in St. Mark's church was Henry 
Eichelberger. Although the disparity in years precluded close in- 
timacy, yet I regarded the dece'ased with feelings of warm affection. 
He was one of those men who are liable to be misunderstood in a 
community, or rather perhaps, of not being properly appreciated. 
Modest and retiring, one had to know him well to understand his 
sterling traits of character and apprehend his worth. He did his 
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122 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

duty SO quietly and unostentatiously as not to attract special atten- 
tion. 

Therefore, as one who knows, I feel it ray duty to announce that 
the church at large has sustained the loss of a noble man and de- 
voted servant — one whose superior it would have been difficult to 
find. This is not the proper place to speak of his success in busi- 
ness, of his ability as a financier, of his sterling honesty, of his 
great kindness and helpfulness toward those who were in his em- 
ploy in the tilling of his thousands of acres, for he was the largest 
landholder in this part of the State. 

It is of his religious faithfulness as steward, of his devotion to 
duty and to God, that I would say a few words of commendation, 
for the learning and imitation of us all. His religious life may be 
summed up in one expressive word, faithfulness. Henry Eichel- 
berger was a remarkably faithful man. In looking over the church 
records, I cannot see that he ever held office ; the only instance in 
which his name is mentioned in connection with official position 
being twenty-five years ago when St. Mark's Church was organ- 
ized. A note is made of contributions being gathered for the erec- 
tion of a building, and his name is emphasized as the treasurer of 
that fund. 

There is another and better method which pastors have of judg- 
ing of devotion to the church and the church's dear Lord. A re- 
cord is kept of the communion seasons — those precious times of 
refreshing when the Saviour's redeemed ones show forth their re- 
membrance of Him. A good idea of a church member's religious 
life may be gained from this record. I see from it that the deceas- 
ed, during the period which covered one-third of his life-time, was 
absent but once, and then I have no doubt he was indisposed or 
absent from home. Probably not another name upon the church 
book, for the same period of time, shows such faithfulness in at- 
tendance upon the sacrament of the Holy Communion. 

During my pastorate, when Henry Eicheiberger was absent 
from his accustomed place in his pew, I knew that he was not 
well. His faithfulness in church attendance was really remarka- 
ble, when we bear in mind how he suffered from the infirmities of 
an accident and of age. How often have I been encouraged in 
preaching the word when I saw this frail-appearing man earnestly 
giving attention and with kindly sympathy lighting up every fea- 
ture of his wan countenance. 

He was also most faithful in the support of the church at home 
and abroad. Shortly after assuming charge, meeting me on the 



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street one day, he remarked that he was accustomed to give at 
stated times to the support of our missionary operations, and in- 
quired whether I would send his offering. He then handed me a 
large sura of money, (as much and more than is given by many 
churches yearly,) naming the objects to which he desired it ap- 
plied. This is but an instance of his way of giving. I could men- 
tion many, many more. It may be said, " He could well afford 
it." Yes, but it is a very rare thing for those who can afford it to 
give in this way — unasked, unsolicited. I have introduced in St. 
Mark's church the Lord's Treasury method of collecting the benefi- 
cent offerings. By that method the Scripture direction (I Cor. 
xvi. 2) may be observed in letter and in spirit. From last year's 
report I learn that pew No. 17 — the one occupied by the deceased 
and his brother — is credited with I328. From my heart of hearts 
I pray : " Would God there were more like Henry Eichelberger ! " 

But his works do follow him. Yesterday his last will and testa- 
ment was read. After remembering a number of local objects liber- 
ally, he directs that |5,ooo shall be given to the Lutheran Board of 
Home Missions, |5,ooo to the Board of Foreign Missions, and I5,- 
000 to the Board of Church Extension — in all |i5,ooo to the church 
at large. I suppose that he reckoned that this amount, with what 
he gave to local objects, rightly belonged to the Lord, as it consti- 
tutes about the one-tenth of his estate. Will you not agree with 
me, dear reader, that this man tried to be faithful to his trust? 

May his spirit made perfect have heard the commendation of 
faithfulness spoken by the Master : "Well done, thou good and 
faithful servant ; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 

Charles M. Stock. 

ABDIEL W. EICHELBERGER. 
The next brother is he who so kindly gives to the Eichelbergers 
of to-day, this opportunity to hear and know of the doings of their 
ancestors, — Abdiel Wirt Eichelberger. He was born in Hanover, 
December 6th, 1819. When last Summer, he presented his fellow- 
townsmen with that beautiful building that stands on a hill before 
the town to mark for the coming years his generosity, the Eichel- 
berger High School, we who heard the speech of presentation 
delivered by his pastor, Rev. Dr. Charles M. Stock, wished that 
description could have been given here. Mr. Stock said : "Cap- 
tain A. W. Eichelberger is a large man, large in frame, in heart, 



124 '^■'^^ EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

and soul. His the broadest charity, his the kindest heart, and his 
the deepest sympathy of any man I know." Of course all will 
know that this inadequate sketch was not written by himself. The 
following was clipped from the handsome 1896 Christmas edition 
of the Baltimore American : — 

"Captain A. W. Eichelberger received the best advantages in 
education which his native town afforded. He was apprenticed to 
learn the carpenter's trade in 1838, and remained until 1841. In 
1843 he traveled overland to the State of Georgia, to visit his broth- 
er Jacob. While there he arranged for the shipment of carriages 
and damask coverlids to that State, which he continued for several 
years, and subsequently purchased, jointly with his brother, the 
Wehadkee Flour and Saw Mills, in the State of Alabama, and has 
since held his interest in the same, except during the Civil War, 
when the property was confiscated by the Confederate Government 
and returned to him after the war. 

"From 1843 to 1852, he spent his Winters in the South looking 
after his interests, and his Summers in Hanover, farming his own 
and his mothers land, making purchases for shipments South, and 
drilling an infantry company of citizen soldiers called the United 
Blues, and afterwards a cavalry company known as the Fourth 
Dragoons. As a military officer he was a universal favorite. In 
his early life he was a devout Whig, taking the stump as a speaker 
in the political campaigns of 1844 and 1852. He is now a Republi- 
can. He has never married. 

" In the year 1872 he, with three other public-spirited citizens, 
presented the beautiful Fountain which now adorns the Centre 
Square, of Hanover, and adds so much to the attractiveness of the 
town. He is a regular attendant of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 
and a liberal contributor to all objects of benevolence and charity ; 
takes a lively interest in the public welfare of his native town, and 
is universally popular among his neighbors and fellow-citizens. 

" Successful in his own business, he sought to advance the wel- 
fare of the community, and engaged in all well-conceived enter- 
prises designed to develop its agricultural and manufacturing in- 
dustries. As soon as railroads had demonstrated their practicabil- 



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ity and value, he became deeply interested in them, and early ad- 
vocated the construction of one through his section, abounding in 
wealth and attractions of every kind. He became immediately and 
prominently connected with railroad affairs in 1853, and was elect- 
ed that year on account of his executive and administrative ability 
President of the Hanover Branch Railroad. In this position he 
was enabled to appreciate what his section needed to bring out its 
possibilities and resources, and he secured the construction of sev- 
eral important branch roads, running through rich localities, facili- 
tating the shipment of the products of the farms, the Littlestown 
Extension, Berlin Branch, Bachman Valley, and latterly the Balti- 
more and Hanover Railroad. 

"He advocated the purchase of the Gettysburg Railroad, thus 
giving Baltimore a continuous rail connection with that historic 
town, its famous battlefield and its productive region. By the 
above purchase, the railroad known as the 'Old Tape Worm,' in 
building which Thaddeus Stevens figured conspicuously, running 
from Gettysburg, to the Western Maryland, on the Blue Ridge 
Summit, although unfinished, came into possession of the above 
company. The Gettysburg Railroad has been consolidated with 
the Hanover Branch, and is known as the Western Extension of 
the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad. 

"Captain Eichelberger has given an exhibition of that high- 
spiritedness which ought to actuate every man holding public and 
representative positions. In very many ways he has manifested 
his desire to advance public interests and arouse the people to acts 
of self-elevation. 

" He has also sought to encourage education and higher culture 
by personal influence and expenditure of means, having within the 
last year contributed over $3,000 toward the support of the Acad- 
emy at Glenville, and has also just completed the erection of an 
Academy building at Hanover, costing 124,000, exclusive of the 
ground. He has also purchased for the benefit of the town a hand- 
some grove of natural trees for a public park." 

Captain Eichelberger has received two severe injuries, the first 
by a fall in the year 1891, the other by being thrown from a car- 



126 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

riage in 1893. These accidents so hurt him as to unfit him for any 
active work ; he has therefore severed his connection with many 
business interests, but still is President of three railroads, making 
him yet the oldest living Railroad President. The Academy build- 
ing he has since turned over to his native town for a High School, 
having become convinced that the era of the Public School is at 
hand, and that the education "for the people and by the people," 
will be accomplished through them. On his 8ist birthday he also 
presented to the school, his portrait, for which they had asked that 
the scholars of the coming years might see for themselves, this 
man who had so generously furnished such a building for use in 
their education. The picture taken for that occasion is given as a 
frontispiece to this volume. 

The following account of the presentation of the Academy prop- 
erty to the Hanover School District, is from the Evening Herald, 
of June 9th, 1900 :— 

CAPT. EICHELBERGER'S MAGNIFICENT GIFT. 



Eichelberg Academy for Use as a High School— Surprise at the 
Commencement — Successful Commencement Exercises 
of the High School Made Memorable by the Gift. 

The Commencement exercises of the High School in the Opera 
House last evening mark beyond a doubt one of the most interesting 
epochs not only in the history of the Hanover public schools, but in 
the history of the town itself. 

The notable incident in connection with these exercises was nothing 
less than the presentation by Capt. A. W. Eichelberger, of Eichelberg 
Academy, with its beautiful campus, covering three acres of ground, 
to the Hanover School District, for the use of the High School, the 
only condition being that it be used for public school purposes forever. 
The Opera House was crowded with people and great was the applause 
awarded each young lady and gentleman as essay or oration was com- 
pleted ; but still greater was the applause which greeted the mention 
of the name of the absent actor in the evening's exercises— Capt. A. 
W. Eichelberger. 

The valedictory was spoken, the High School bell several hundred 
feet away, had tolled for the Senior Class, the diplomas were award- 



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ed and the address to the graduates by the Supervising Principal was 
over. The programme was about to close with the pronouncing of 
the benediction, when without invitation or announcement, Rev Dr 
C. M. Stock, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, arose from his 
seat at the rear of the platform, and began to address the chairman. 

He said he was not on the programme to speak and he did not know 
that any one had invited him on the platform, but he was here for a 
particular purpose. The tolling of the High School bell by some mis- 
chievous P>eshman may have been meant for a joke on the class of 
1900, but that bell has tolled the death knell of the old order of things 
in the Hanover schools. When it rings again, it will ring for joy. One 
of the speakers has mentioned three things which the class of 1900 
would like to have for the improvement of Hanover, a public library, 
a public park, and a new High School building. I wish to say that 
the public library is on the way, (Applause,) and I believe that the 
public park will come, (Applause,) but the new High School building 
is here. (Long continued applause.) 

I represent to-night a large man in every way, a representative pro- 
duct of a family of five generations of Hanover citizens, one of the 
most lovable, broadminded, great-hearted, public-spirited men I have 
ever met— Captain A. W. Eichelberger. (Tremendous applause.) In 
his name, I come to present to the School Board a princely gift. He 
will soon have attained the age of 81 years. During all these it seems 
he has been devising some means by which he might do good to the 
people of Hanover. His life motto has been the motto of the class of 
1900, Non Sibi sed Omnibus. Four years ago, he built Eichelberg 
Academy. Builders tell me that it is one of the finest buildings in this 
community. After its erection, he conveyed it by deed to an associa- 
tion, to be utilized as an academy ; but after a test it has been thought 
by the donor that the edifice would serve a better purpose as a public 
school building and as the representative of the Academy, Capt. Eich- 
elberger, and my fellow members of the association, I present to the 
Board of Directors the deed of this building and three acres of land, 
the only condition being that it be used for public school purposes 
forever. If it is worth one cent it is worth $30,000. 

The speaker then handed to Dr. O. T. Everhart, Secretary of the 
School Board, two deeds, one from A. W. Eichelberger to the Eichel- 
berg Academy Association, dated Oct. 29th, 1896, and the other from 
Eichelberg Academy to the Hanover School District, dated May i6th, 
i9°o- The price of the deeds, was stated as $1, and was greeted with 
great applause. ■ 

Dr O. T. Everhart, saying one present deserves another, handed Dr. 
Stock a one dollar note, which he said was one of Uncle Sam's prom- 



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ises to pay. Dr. Stock handed the note to Prof. Chrostwaite as a do- 
nation to the library fund. 

Dr. Everhart then in an able address accepted the generous gift. 
He said the building will stand as a monument to Capt. Eichelberger, 
and long after his mortal remains are mouldering in the grave children 
will rise up and call him blessed. 

He gave a brief account of the visit of Dr. Stock to the School Board 
meeting on May 5th, and the surprise and delight of the members 
when they were informed of Capt. Eichelberger's intentions, and said 
we must not forget to give at least one grateful thought to Dr. Stock, 
who had so well wrought out the generous donor's plan. 

Rev. George B. Resser. who was sitting in the audience, arose and 
said that although he was not asked to speak any more than Dr. Stock, 
yet he thought it would be improper if the thanks of the audience 
were not returned to Captain Eichelberger for his princely gift. He 
therefore asked Dr. Stock to convey the thanks of the audience to the 
captain. The great applause which greeted these remarks showed the 
deep feeling of those present and their hearty thanks to their generous 
fellow citizen. 

The exercises were then closed with the benediction by Rev. J. 
Emory Weeks, 

The extract from the Baltimore American gives Captain Eichel- 
berger in his business life very well, but does not tell of him as he 
is in other relations, — a loyal citizen, so loyal with such perfect 
trust in the strength and ultimate triumph of the United States 
Government, that when he was advised to part with his Southern 
property, for fear it would be a dead loss to him, he felt so safe in 
reposing his trust in his own government that he refused to take 
the advice, and the end justified his faith, for after the surrender 
it was all returned to him. 

Better yet was the loyalty which upheld his countrymen when 
rumors of divers alarming kinds kept pouring in upon them, until 
they almost uprose in riots ; then who so calm, so reassuring as 
the Captain ? When just before the Battle of Gettysburg, a few 
stragglers from the Confederate Army came through Hanover, and 
gave the people a touch of the awfulness of war, so that whenever 
afterwards a soldier hove in sight there was almost a panic, who] 
calmed eyery fear, unless the Captain ? 



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At the outbreak of the Civil War an order was sent here for the 
arrest of Major Jenifer, of the United States Army, on sight, as a 
deserter. One day, soon after, Captain Eichelberger seeing him in 
the hotel, told a friend that there was the Major. They immedi- 
ately arrested him. Major Jenifer protesting that he had resigned 
his commission, but the Captain acting under the orders received, 
left his companion in charge of the prisoner, and went to the tele- 
graph office to ask the Governor of Pennsylvania what should be 
done with the Major ; receiving the reply to send him down to 
York to prison. Captain Eichelberger was delayed quite a while, 
and upon his return was surprised to find Centre Square filled with 
people. Inquiring the reason, he received no coherent reply for 
some moments, but finally discovered that during his absence the 
rumor had gotten out that crowds of rebel rowdies were coming 
from Baltimore to burn the town, and the cry had been raised, — 
"To arms ! to arms! the rebels are coming to burn us out!" 
This had brought the people in from the outskirts, armed in every 
conceivable way, with anything in the shape of a weapon they 
could lay their hands upon. Report also had it that this Major 
was to lead the Baltimore rioters in their pillage and conflagration, 
and the consequent feeling against him was exceedingly revengeful 
and bitter. 

Captain Eichelberger immediately made a speech to the people 
near enough to be able to hear him, and fully explained the situa- 
tion. He then went over to the hotel where he had left the prison- 
er and found him in chains. These he ordered taken off, and when 
the crowd attempted to take the prisoner out and kill him, the 
Captain placed himself in the doorway and tried with all the elo- 
quence in his power to make them listen to reason ; but they 
would not, and he saw the prisoner was in terrible danger. He 
drew his grand and massive figure to its full height, and placing a 
hand upon either door jamb, cried at the top of his voice, "Only 
over my dead body shall you take him 1 " His personal danger 
brought several of the more prominent citizens to his side, and 
thus protecting the prisoner, he explained to the crowd more fully 
the whole matter and promised them that he with two other men 
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130 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

would watch Baltimore Street that night. So wrought up was the 
crowd almost to frenzy, in such terror for their homes and dear 
ones, that almost any other man, nay I think any other man but 
Captain Eichelberger, would have been, if not killed outright, at 
least badly injured when standing in that doorway, but who of his 
fellow-citizens but loved and honored, yea more, and trusted him 
and his word to see that they should be protected ? There was 
not one among them but knew that if it should become necessary, 
he would protect them and theirs with his very life, even as he 
had offered to do for that poor prisoner. 

Major Jenifer it turned out had really resigned ; but the Captain 
had only acted under express orders in arresting him. The crowd 
dispersed and those of them who are alive to-day are thankful in- 
deed that the Captain's bravery kept off that which would have 
come to be a reproach to Hanover as long as memory lasted. 

The news of the story of the coming rioters reached Baltimore, 
and the citizens there were sorry that the people of Hanover would 
believe this of them, or would even believe that their rabble would 
have been allowed to come here on such fiendish purposes. One 
of their most important citizens, a man then filling one of the 
city's most important offices, wrote here that he had heard that 
the coolest-headed, most purposeful, and most influential citizen of 
the town was a Captain Eichelberger, who was President of a rail- 
road, that was all he knew ; so he directed his letter to " Captain 
George Eichelberger, President of the Hanover & Junction Rail- 
road, Hanover, Pennsylvania." The letter lies before me now, 
having resurrected it out from an old desk of the Captain's, where 
it had lain neglected and forgotten, for thirty-nine years. This 
gentleman assures the Captain that no such attack is to be feared ; 
that municipal authority would prevent it, if nothing else would, 
and that he begs him to so assure his fellow-citizens. He goes on 
to bestow many complimentary expressions of his personal regard, 
and complete confidence in the Captain, and remains sure that in 
writing and placing the truth of the story before him, he has done 
the best possible to satisfy and quiet the alarm of Hanoverians. 
He remains also with high respect and assurances of warm friend- 



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ship towards him of whom he had heard so highly, but whom he 

regrets to only have known by report. Signed, "I. J. P ." 

Not one word of all this was written with even the knowledge of 
Captain Eichelberger, but I who have been able to do much of this 
latter work for him, feel that I must share with you, not the affec- 
tion and grateful respect which I shall ever feel for him, but the 
knowledge, as well as my poor words can give it you, of what 
manner of man this is, who has done so much that you and your 
children shall know and enjoy the inheritance of a highly respect- 
ed and untarnished name, that name which none who have ever 
borne it, have worn with more modesty, honesty and integrity 
than he of whom I have been writing. The moral lies herein. 

KUFUS A. EICHELBERGER. 
Rufus, the youngest son of Jacob and Maria Eichelberger, is bet- 
ter described in a notice published below, and written at the time 
of his death, August 3d, 1885, than I could give it. But one must 
bear witness that he too like his brothers, was not only an active 
business man and a generous citizen, but also in his family rela- 
tions he was the most gentle, sympathetic and considerate of men. 
His lovable ways endeared him to a host of friends, but in the 
home he was best known and best appreciated. His sudden death 
brought sorrow to that home, where his sympathetic ways were 
more than ever missed. Of these five brothers, Jacob and Mat- 
thew were the only ones who married ; Jacob, the only one who 
left sons to bear his name, and they are all living in the South. 

Death of a Prominent Citizen. 

About 7 o'clock on Monday morning last, our community was great- 
ly shocked to learn of the death of Rufus A. Eichelberger, Esq., Presi- 
dent of the Hanover Saving Fund Society, whose spirit quietly passed 
away from the scenes of earth during the early morning hours at his 
residence on Frederick Street, after a brief illness of gastric fever. 
Mr. Eichelberger had been complaining for several weeks and was 
confined to the house, but no serious result was apprehended by the 
family until a few days previous to his demise, when a sudden alarm- 
ing change for the worse took place, which developed into gastric 
fever, and despite the best medical skill and unremitting attentions of 
his family, progressed unchecked until a fatal termination was reached. 



132 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Mr. Eichelberger was one of our most widely known citizens, having 
been for many years connected with the Hanover Saving Fund Socie- 
ty as its Treasurer after the resignation of the late F. E. Metzger, and 
some six or eight years ago upon the resignation of the Presidency of 
that institution by Henry Wirt, Esq., was unanimously chosen by the 
Board of Directors his successor. He was also Treasurer of the Han- 
over Junction, Hanover & Gettysburg Railroad Company, and a Di- 
rector in the Hanover & Berlin and Hanover & Maryland Line Turn- 
pike Companies. As a careful and successful financier he was with- 
out a peer, and his opinion was always consulted and respected by the 
patrons of the bank and business public, his judgment very rarely 
proving at fault. 

He was a quiet and unassuming gentleman, of unimpeachable integ- 
rity and great purity of character, and although possessed of great 
wealth was exceedingly plain and unassuming in his habits and man- 
ners. His death is a serious loss to our community. He was the 
youngest son of Jacob Eichelberger, Esq , one of our most prominent 
citizens a half century ago, and was in his 64th year. He was unmar- 
ried. 

His remains were interred at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning at 
Mount Olivet Cemetery in the presence of an unusually large funeral 
concourse. Rev. Dr. Scholl, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, of- 
ficiating. The funeral was attended by the Bank, Railroad and Turn- 
pike officials in a body, and a number of intimate personal friends and 
acquaintances were present from Baltimore, York, Gettysburg, New 
Oxford and other places. 

Tributes of Respect. 

Office of the Hanover Saving Fund Society, Hanover, Aug. 4th, 1885. 

At a meeting of the Board of Directors held this day, the following action was 
taken : — 

Whereas, It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst by 
death after a short illness, Rufua A. Eichelberger, the President of this Institu- 
tion, and our fellow member : 

And Whereas, In consideration of his long and faithful services in the furth- 
erance of the best interests of our Society, it is but meet and right that this 
Board give some formal expression of the deep sense of their loss, and also add 
their sincere tribute of respect to his memory ; therefore, be it 

Resolved, That in the death of Kufus A. Eichelberger, this Board has sustained 
the loss of a valuable, tried and faithful member and officer of thirty-five years 
service, and whose absence from the councils of the Board will long be felt by all 
its members. 

Resolved, That we shall ever cherish in our memories a sincere appreciation of 
his fidelity and zeal in the affairs of the Bank, and bear testimony to the un- 
bounded confidence in his integrity that has always been shown by the members 



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of the Board, the stockholders of the Institution, and the patrons of the Bank 
generally. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect, we attend the funeral in a body. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the minutes of the Board and 
published in the papers of the town. K. M. Wirt, 

Secretary to the Board. 



At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hanover Junction, Hanover & 
Gettysburg Railroad Company, held at the oiEce of the Company on Tuesday ev- 
ening, August 4th, 1885, the following proceedings were had : — 

This Board of Directors has heard with profound regret and sorrow of the un- 
expected death of its Treasurer, Rufus A. Eichelberger, and, as a weH-merited 
tribute to his memory, hereby order the following to be entered upon its minutes 
and published in the papers of the town : — 

Rufus A. Eichelberger died in ripe, vigorous manhood, in the midst of active 
business, in the town which gave him birth and where he had spent his whole life 
in the enjoyment of the confidence of all his fellow-citizens. 

'1 hirty-one years ago he was elected Treasurer of the Hanover Branch Railroad 
Company, then in its infancy, and afterwards consolidated under the present 
name of the Hanover Junction, Hanover & Gettysburg Railroad Company, and 
was the Treasurer continuously until his death. He was courteous, attentive to 
his duties, a scrupulously honest man, and in his death the Railroad Company 
has lost a faithful officer, the community a good citizen, and the family a kind 
and confiding brother. 

Extract from the minutes. R. M. Wirt, Secretary. 

CATHERINE EICHELBERGER McCOSH. 
The daughters of Jacob and Maria were, Catherine, Amanda and 
Amelia. Catherine married Samuel Alexander McCosh, of Gettys- 
burg. They moved to that place after their marriage, but soon 
left for Petersburg, Pa. Here their two oldest children were born, 
Mary Wirt and James Eichelberger. While this son was an infant 
they moved to LaGrange, Georgia, and ran a large hotel. Soon 
afterwards, Mr. Samuel A. McCosh bought a large plantation on 
the Chatahoochee river, in Troup County, Ga. Here the family 
resided until the call "To Arms," which meant to those living in 
the South, " Protect your families and your homes." Mr. McCosh 
went to join the Confederate troops in 1861, and his eldest son fol- 
lowed him. This was a terrible time for the wife and mother, 
whose family then consisted of Louisa D., who the year before had 
come to Hanover to stay with her grandmother, and complete her 
studies. She was North the whole time of the war, virtually as 
much a prisoner, as far as being able to go home was concerned, 



134 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

as any soldier lad. Mary W., Samuel Alexander, Jr., Cornelius 
R. and Catherine M. were with their mother during the time of 
the war. The youngest son of Mrs. McCosh, was Henry Clay, the 
little son whom she had brought North a few years before on com- 
ing to see her invalid and fast-aging mother. The child died dur- 
ing that visit, and was buried in Hanover. 

Among the older residents of Troup County, Mrs. Catherine Mc- 
Cosh is still remembered for her lovely and gracious manner, her 
exemplary and kindly patience, and her Christian grace and forti- 
tude, especially through the trying days of war and sorrow. She 
was tried to the limit of such grace and fortitude, for when the 
news of the surrender was an old story, when the neighborhood 
had been gladdened by the sight of the return of those who were 
living, when the names of the honored dead had all been made 
known, there came no word of her husband ; not a message, not a 
line. Months went by ; nothing ever came to tell of the manner 
of his death, nothing. Finally, on a beautiful Sunday morning, 
this gentle, lovely woman was taken ill and soon passed away ; 
where now so many of her children have gone to meet her. 

Her oldest daughter married, after the mother's death, Nathan- 
iel E. Baker, a planter, of Alabama ; they had four children, Mary 
Louise, who was married last winter to W. B. Gilham, of Roanoke, 
Va. ; James H., Cornelius Edwin and Silas Whitton Baker, still 
living at or near the home of their father, their mother having 
died in 1896. She and her next sister, Louisa D., both inherited 
their lovely qualities from their mother. Gentle, lovely and lov- 
able Christian women, both. 

Louisa D, McCosh was married to James H. Hines, by whom 
she had seven children, Nancy Katherine, married to Dr. Hilt, of 
Standing Rock, Alabama, a young physician with a good practice 
and doing well ; they have two little ones. Elmer Hines is also 
married and has two young children. He is engaged in the mer- 
cantile business, with his father. Mr. Hines, Sr. is a genial, open- 
handed, open-hearted Southerner, who has the true sympathy of 
all who knew his dearly beloved partner, who after over twenty 
years beside him, was called to her Heavenly home but a short 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY. I35 

time smce. The i^st of their children, — James A., Sarah Louise, 
Annie D. and Mary Wirt Hines, are still at home. 

The youngest daughter of Catherine McCosh, nee Eichelberger, 
was North some time during her girlhood, but returned South 
while still quite young. She married a master mechanic, James 
A. Ware, by whom she had four children, — Alexander Ware, a 
noble boy, who was cut off from these scenes of earthly conflict at 
an early age, dying in 1894 ; James Melville, John Matthew and 
Cornelius Ware, all living in Alabama, among friends and relatives, 
their parents, both being deceased. 

James Eichelberger McCosh married Mary E. Birdsong, and lives 
in Alabama ; he runs a plantation near his home and also a large 
mill, in which he is a partner with Captain Eichelberger, of Han- 
over. James E. McCosh is a very devout member of the Baptist 
Church, and resembles his mother in many ways. He has four 
children, Samuel Abdiel, Anna Rebecca, John Birdsong and Ruth, 
none of whom are yet married. 

His brother, Samuel Alexander, while still quite young decided 
to study medicine, and after a short course at Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, graduated at Jefiferson Medical College, in Phila- 
delphia. Soon after he located in Stewartsville, New Jersey. 
Here he married Louise W, Kellogg in 1879. The doctor was a 
true son of his genial, jolly father and gentle mother ; a more pop- 
ular physician never practiced medicine. He removed to a beauti- 
ful suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, Edgewood. Here his four children 
were born, and here the doctor died in 1890. His widow and chil- 
dren survive him, James Nathaniel, Rufus Eichelberger, Marshall 
Kellogg and Louise Alice, all still at home. 

The youngest living son of Samuel A. McCosh and his wife 
Catherine, is Cornelius R., now residing in Hanover. He, in 1879, 
married Nancy E. Baugher, by whom he has four children, — Irma 
Kathryn, Henry Eichelberger, Robert Alexander and Louise 
Baugher. These are also living at home with the exception of the 
son, Henry E. who is engaged as a traveling salesman, but regards 
Hanover as his home. Cornelius McCosh was destined for a civil 
engineer, and he was for a time engaged in that work, but after 



1^6 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

his marriage went to Emory Grove, Md., where he lived for sever- 
al years, in the employ of the railroads. About eight years ago he 
brought bis family to Hanover, where he is now engaged in the 
manufacture of ice. His family are members of St. Mark's Luther- 
an Church. 

AMANDA EICHELBEKGER GITT. 
The next daughter of Jacob and Maria Eichelberger, was Aman- 
da, who married Abdiel F. Gitt. of Adams County, Pa. Mr. Gitt 
was a farmer on a very extensive scale and also ran a large grain 
mill. They only had two children, Mary F. in 1872 was married 
to Paul Hersh, of New Oxford, who soon after his marriage ob- 
tained a position in Washington, D. C, in the Treasury Depart- 
ment, where he remained for many years, once losing it through a 
change of administration, but has held it for a long time, and is 
there now. His accomplished and popular wife died about two 
years ago, much to the sorrow of her many friends as well as to 
that of her near relatives. She had no children. 

Catherine W. Gitt was married in 1877 to William A. Himes, of 
New Oxford. Mrs. Himes has resided since her marriage at the 
homestead of her husband's family, which she, with her true 
Christian hospitality, has made delightful to so many. She has a 
family of four— all living in New Oxford, Pa. Anna Katherine, 
Amelia Eichelberger, Helen Lanius and William D. Himes, are all 
pleasant and lively young people. Their father is President of the 
bank in New Oxford, and also connected with many business enter- 
prises in York and in his native town, beside taking a watchful 
care of several farms in Adams County. 

AMELIA HENRIETTA EICHELBERGER 
Amelia Henrietta Eichelberger, youngest child of Jacob and Ma- 
ria, was born, as were all of their family, in Hanover. Just as she 
grew to womanhood her mother became a complete invalid, and 
fortunate it was for her that she had one daughter left to her, and 
until the close of that mother's life, her daughter's devotion was 
marked and beautiful. Since then she has been the one who has 
not only kept the house, but has given the home that feminine 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I37 

homeliness, so needed, and has made it home indeed for her broth- 
ers. Like them she is a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 
in this place. 

From Jacob Eichelberger, Sr., and his wife Anna Maria down, 
the whole of this family of the name who have died, lie in Mt. 
Olivet Cemetery, at Hanover, or rather all, with the exception of 
Jacob, who died in Alabama, and whose children preferred to have 
his grave where they might attend it. 

Thus the line of Jacob, the second son of Philip Frederick Eichel- 
berger and his wife, Anna Maria Reinacker. In closing this line, 
I feel that I would like very much to share with you all the many 
interesting papers disclosed to the light of day after years of dark- 
ness, papers containing hotel licenses as granted to Jacob Eichel- 
berger, Sr., by the first Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. 
Old fashioned licenses these, with many a name of men who have 
been laid in their graves these years past. Then Provincial papers, 
grants made when this State was still a province. Tax receipts 
for the taxation of a "two- wheel carry-all, now commonly called 
a Gig." Receipts for the money paid out by the two elder Jacobs, 
Sr., and Jr., given by loved ones dead and gone. Jacob, the elder, 
settled up his mother's estate, and some of the funeral costs read 
very strangely now, as : 

Cash paid Gobrecht for the Funeral Cermon, 7sh. 5pcn. 

Paid Nich Shaefer, Schoolmaster, for singing at 

the Funeral, 5sh. 

For all the old time funerals there was just such an amount of 
wine ordered and drank. These are things that were of the ut- 
most importance then ; now they are done in other ways. The old 
parchment deeds are too, in their way, curiosities. 



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138 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Leonard Eichelberger. 

Third son of Philip Frederick and his second Wife, Magdalene. 



Leonard, the third son of Philip Frederick Eichelberger and his 
second wife, Magdalene, was born August 12th, 1750, at the first 
large home place or farm owned by his father in this country, the 
175 acres which he had obtained from the Penns, the Proprietaries 
of Pennsylvania, and which was situated in Manheiin Township, 
Lancaster County, Pa. But Leonard was only four years old when 
they moved to York County, to the new home place on the York 
road, near Hanover, Pa., that 225 acres which have been in the 
possession of the Eichelbergers ever since. Here Leonard lived 
and thrived, for we are told that he, like most of his race, was tall 
and strong ; here he grew to manhood and it was from here he 
went to marry, in 1772, Elizabeth Smyser, of York. With his 
father's help he bought a farm along Piney Creek, in Frederick 
(now Carroll) County, Md, At this place their ten children were 
born — Jacob, Mary M., Lydia, Sarah, Frederick, George M., John, 
Susan, Catherine and Elizabeth. Later Leonard and his family 
moved to Dillsburg, Pa. He was by trade a wagon builder, but 
like his brothers before and his sons after him, Leonard's services 
were always at the disposal of his country or his State. In the 
years while our land was still in a state of turmoil as the result of 
our war with England, he was twice chosen to serve for the public 
good. Once he was appointed a member of a company to preserve 
law and order, no slight task in those turbulent times ; again when 
suffering was reported from real want in those cities nearest the 
seat of war, he was chosen to collect funds in his own township to 
send to the relief of the sufferers. And, as you may remember, it 
was sent by the hand of his brother's son, George. In September, 
1800, the first political conventions were held in Adams County, 
just erected, meeting at Gettysburg. To the Republican county 




Col. FEEDERICK EICHELBERGER. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I39 

convention Leonard and Frederick Christian Eichelberger were 
delegates. 

These same old papers and receipts are as interesting in the case 
of Leonard, of course, as of any of the rest. There is one receipt 
which he has signed in German, another as Lenhart Eichelberger, 
both yellow with age. I have a deed given to my grandfather 
for a lot in Hanover, so beautifully written by hand, with the 
flourishes and old time spelling, a relic to satisfy the most loving 
antiquity hunter. Not but there may be many such, but this one 
between these two brothers certainly is of interest to us. It seems 
that Leonard owned the place, and as he was about to marry he 
wanted his money, for he was going to take his bride to what was 
then known as Frederick County, but is now Carroll County, Mary- 
land. The deed is written upon the "eleventh day of March, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and seventy- 
two." It designates Leonard as a " wheelwright" and Jacob as a 
"joiner." The lot sold is on York and "Pigeon" Streets, (now 
Abbottstown Street,) and was numbered 195, costing ^C^ioo. From 
about 1780 until the time of his death, he paid taxes on property 
in Hanover ; as by his father's will we see, " I leave to my belov- 
ed wife Magdalene, etc., etc., by article of agreement with my son, 
Leonard Eichelberger," referring to the house in Hanover, which 
leads us to think that he had made an agreement with Leonard 
that he should have this house after his mother had ended her 
days there. 

Leonard was several times chosen Road Commissioner, and was 
once Justice of the Peace, this in the latter part of his life. He 
died at his home in Dillsburg, at the age of 60, November 8th, 
1811. His good wife Elizabeth survived him but six years, dying 
January 26th, 1817. They were both consistent members of the 
Lutheran Church, and lie buried side by side in the old Franklin 
graveyard, three miles south of Dillsburg. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 

Jacob, oldest child of Leonard and Elizabeth, was born in 1774, 
and very early in the new century, about one hundred years ago, 



140 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

lie married the widow Musser, maiden name Elizabeth Dinkle, 
granddaughter of the Baron Johanne Daniel Dinkle, of whom I 
have spoken before. They had only three children, all daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth, Catherine and Maria. Jacob, as all the sous of 
Leonard, was a public-spirited man. His first home after marry- 
ing, was in York. In 1804 he served as Sheriff of York County, 
was elected to the State Assembly in 1825, and made a Justice in 
1829. He moved to Dillsburg a short time before 1830, and June 
17, 1831, when only 57 years of age, he was called to his fathers, 
leaving his widow and three daughters to survive him. He lies 
buried in the cemetery at Dillsburg, 

ELIZABETH EICHELBERGER SHEARER. 
Elizabeth, his oldest daughter, married Dr. George L. Shearer, 
of Dillsburg, March 8th. 1827. After her marriage she left the 
church of her forefathers, and entered the Presbyterian Church. 
But there she carried out the traditions of her family, for she raised 
two sons to minister to minds diseased, while the other three, and 
even one daughter, made it the study and labor of their lives to 
minister to suffering bodies. They had ten children. Jacob Eichel- 
berger and Susannah, the two eldest, as well as Catherine, the sec- 
ond daughter, all died in early childhood. Dr. George and his wife 
Elizabeth are both buried in Dillsburg. 

The oldest son to attain years of manhood, James Mitchell 
Shearer, followed in his father's footsteps and became a physi- 
cian. He graduated first at Dickinson College, then at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia. He was a surgeon in the Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, during the Civil War ; the rest of bis life he 
practised in Dillsburg. He was married to Miss Georgia Cowen, 
but had no children, and died just before attaining his 48th year. 

George Lewis Shearer graduated at Lafayette College, then at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, was ordained to the ministry in 
18G5, and entered the service of the American Tract Society, where 
in different positions, he has been ever since. He has been their 
head Secretary since 1872. He married Mary Ketchum, some 
time since ; they have a bright and interesting family, all living 




MRS. CATHARINE EICHELBERGER YOUNG. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I4I 

in New York City. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from his Alma Mater, Lafayette, of which College he is also a 
Trustee. 

Frederick Eichelberger Shearer, like this brother, entered the 
ministry, graduating at Princeton, from both the College and Semi- 
nary. During the Civil War, he was in the United States Chris- 
tian Commission work, with the Ninth Army Corps ; was at bat- 
tles from the Rapidan and Wilderness to Petersburg, Va. Ordain- 
ed in 1866, in different services of his chosen calling he spent many 
years in the West ; was editor of the Occident in San Francisco, 
until 1890, when he removed with his wife, whose maiden name 
was Kate B. Russell, and his five charming young people, to New 
York City. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from 
Highland University, in Kansas. 

Henrietta Shearer married a Mr. Dyson, and had one son, Logan, 
who has since studied pharmacy and is now in that business. Mr. 
Dyson, Sr,, died young, and Henrietta married a Mr. Wagoner ; 
they had one daughter, Maria. Mrs. Henrietta Wagoner died in 
1882. 

Niles Harrison Shearer is now living in the city of York, Pa., 
where he has a large drug store. Several years ago he married 
Mary Keyworth, and they have two little children, George and 
Juliette. 

Juliette Shearer, who never married, studied medicine, and re- 
sides in Washington, D. C. 

Edgar Shearer, the youngest of this family, is also single, and is 
living at York, where he is connected with his brother Niles, in 
the drug business. 

CATHERINE EICHELBERGER YOUNG. 

Catherine Eichelberger, second daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth, 
married Enoch Young, of Carlisle, Pa., where they spent most of 
their married life. He died long before reaching old age, and Mrs. 
Young was a widow many years. She was a wonderful woman. 
Had she lived in this day when every calling is open to her sex, 
she might have graced the bench or Senatorial halls. There was 
none of her race more fitted to public life — her legal mind solved 



143 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

every problem ; her wonderful memory retained every noted date 
or deed. It was largely her enthusiastic sympathy, her keen pen- 
etration, raveling all knotty points, as well as to her ready remem- 
brance of all the old family fables, that led me to undertake this 
work, in which her interest never flagged, for which she took 
many a long tramp and made many a visit. She died in 1885 and 
is buried beside her husband in Churchtown, Pa. 

MARIA EICHELBERGER McCOSH. 
Maria, third and youngest child of Jacob Eichelberger, married 
James McCosh, of Gettysburg, where they resided for many years, 
finally making their home at St. Louis, Missouri. Here their two 
children now reside, George, the eldest, being a practicing physi- 
cian. Mr. McCosh and wife have been dead these many years. 
Their daughter, Lida, married a Mr. Clark, of St. Louis, where 
they with their two living little ones now reside, one son having 
died a short time since. The doctor, like so many of our emi- 
grant's descendants who went West to "grow up with the coun- 
try," returned to York, Pa., when in that "Springtime when a 
young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," or in other 
words when ready to marry, he came back to the old home place 
to get a good wife ; for in York several years ago he was married 
to a Miss Shearer. They have one little daughter, Genevieve. 
And with the mention of this little one we close the history of her 
great-grandfather, Jacob Eichelberger. 

FREDERICK EICHELBERGER. 

The next son of Leonard bore the family name and bore it right 
worthily. Frederick was born August 24th, 1783, and as he catne 
to years of early manhood was distinguished for his pleasant and 
courteous manners and for his stylish mode of dress, which earned 
for him among his associates the name of "Gentleman Frederick." 
About the year 1808, he married Catherine Baker, of Piqua, Lan- 
caster County, Pa. He was a member of the State Militia, a Cap- 
tain who formed his own company, but was soon promoted to a 
Colonelcy, which he easily graced with his soldierly bearing and 
distinguished manners. Although a Colonel, he was more of a 




GEOKGE M. EICHELBERGEK, Son of Leonard. 



THE EICHELBEKGER FAMILY. I43 

statesman than a soldier. He began his political life by filling the 
unexpired term of a Justice of the Peace who died in ofRce. In 
1815-16-17, he served his district as Assemblyman at the State Cap- 
ital, while in i8ig, 1823 ^"^ i" 1829, he was State Senator. At the 
age of 53 years Colonel Frederick Eichelberger died. He is buried 
at Dillsburg. They had no children, but his widow survived him 
thirty-three years. 

We give a picture of the Colonel, which certainly shows a well- 
preserved and handsome man. We also give one of his next broth- 
er, George M., which shows so well that predisposition to legal 
ability which made him as well as his son and grandson powers in 
their chosen profession. 

GEORGE M. EICHELBERGER. 

George M. Eichelberger, born February nth, 1784, did not fol- 
low the rest of his family, but chose a home for himself in Freder- 
ick City, Md., where he married Jane Grayson. He was for twen- 
ty years Register of Wills for Frederick County, Md., and was one 
f the original Vice Presidents of the Frederick County Agricultur- 
''ociety on its organization in 1821. At various times he was on 
'>ards of the different educational institutions of Frederick. In 
1842 he was one of the memorialists to the Grand Lodge of Masons 
of Maryland praying for a renewal of the charter of Columbia 
Lodge ; he was a prominent Mason and held various offices high in 
the Order. He died at Frederick, January i6th, 1854. His child- 
ren were : Lydia, (died unmarried,) Ann Eliza, Margaret and Mary 
Jane, daughters ; Niles, Grayson, Allen and Harvej^, sons. 

ANN ELIZA GAMBRLLL. 
In 1836 Ann Eliza married Charles A. Gambrill, the well-known 
flour merchant of Baltimore, by whom she had the following chil- 
dren : M. Louisa, married to P. H. Macgill, of the C. A. Gambrill 
Mfg. Co., of Baltimore, she dying childless in March, 1892 ; Rich- 
ard A., now deceased, who married Anna Van Nest, of New York, 
by whom he had one child, a son, now living in New York City ; 
Albert Gambrill, married to Laura Webb and living in Baltimore, 
to which marriage there were born five children, Ethel and Mary, 



I^ THE EICHELBEROER FAMILY. 

(died in infancy,) Albert, Laura and Louise, all living in Baltimore ; 
Janie, married to Robert Tyson, and long since deceased childless ; 
Mary, long since deceased, unmarried. 

MARY JANE BOONE. 
Mary Jane, daughter of George, married Dr. Jerminghara Boone, 
of Frederick, Md., and died many years ago, leaving surviving her 
husband and the following children: Janie, Margaret and Cathe- 
rine, all unmarried and living in Frederick County, Md. ; Jerming- 
hara, unmarried, and living in St. Louis, Mo. ; and Robert, who 
died some years ago, unmarried. 

MARGARET WOODSIDE. 
Margaret, daughter of George, married John Woodside, of Balti- 
more, and survives him as his widow. They had five children, — 
Daniel, George and Grace, all of whom died in infancy ; William, 
married and living in Baltimore, and Margaret S., living in Balti- 
more and married to A. J. Corning, by whom she has four child- 
ren. 

NILES EICHELBERGER. 

Niles, the oldest son of George, died unmarried many years ago. 

GRAYSON EICHELBERGER. 

Grayson, the next son, was one of the most prominent lawyers 
of his day in his County and State. He was a staunch Union man 
and by his work as Secretary of State of Maryland, under Govern- 
or Hicks, and as State Senator in 1861. did good service for the 
cause of loyalty. At one time during the war a reward was put 
upon his head by one of the Rebel brigadiers. He was identified 
with almost all the public and literary enterprises of Frederick. 
He graduated at St. Joseph's at Emmitsburg, and was the valedic- 
torian of his class. May, 1844, Grayson Eichelberger was married 
to Amanda Baugher, (now deceased) daughter of Isaac Baugher, 
of Emmitsburg, Md. Mourned alike by his family and fellow citi- 
zens, Grayson Eichelberger died July 24th, 1885, having just pass- 
ed his Gsd birthday. 

There were born to this couple the following children : Edmund, 
Charles and J. Willie, all dying in infancy ; Frances M., married 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. T45 

to C. H. Hill, dying in 1875, without issue ; Ella and EfRe G., both 

unmarried and living in Frederick ; Byrd Gambrill, married in 

January, 1900, Lorella Dangerfield Faunt-Le-Roy ; he is clerking 

for the publishing house of Gushing & Co., in Baltimore ; Edward 

S., still a young man, who is swiftly following in the illustrious 

footsteps of his father and grandfather, as he is practicing law and 

is now serving his second term as State's Attorney for Frederick 

County. He is a graduate of Princeton University. In 1894, he 

was married to Miriam Gray, a bright and pretty young New Eng- 

lander ; they have two children, Margaret Grayson and Edward 

Gray. 

HAEVEY EICHELT5ERGEE. 

Harvey, third son of George, was born with the true restlessness 
of a natural pioneer. His motto truly seemed to be to "go West 
and grow up with the country." Neither the discomforts nor the 
loneliness of the life seemed to daunt him ; he went to California 
in 1849, stayed there until the population became too numerous to 
suit him, then went to Oregon where he remained, living in the 
mountains of that State with only one man for company for nearly 
twenty years. At the end of that time he made a visit home, then 
went to Texas, staying there but a short while (comparatively.) 
Then he returned to Frederick, where in a few years he died, in 
1893. He never married. 

WILLIAM ALLEN EICHELBERGER. 
The youngest son, William Allen, who was but a little over 30 
when he became enthused with that loyalty to the Union which, 
as in so many other cases, cost him his life. Allen first enlisted as 
a sailor, and was on board the San Jacinto, when Captain Wilkes 
captured Mason and Slidell, the Confederate Commissioners. — 
Afterward he enlisted in the regular army, and at the second bat- 
tle of Bull Run, in August, 1862, he was killed, having had both 
legs shot away. 

JOHN EICHELBERGER. 

John, the youngest son of Leonard and Elizabeth, attained to 

manhood just about the time of his father's death. Like his broth- 
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146 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

ers he became quite a politician, ran for the Legislature in York 
County in 1821 and in 1823 0° the ticket called the " Winster," 
which was against the regular party ticket. There were many in 
the State who thought party reform was needed, hence the new 
or " Winster" party. The last time his name was so used he ran 
against his brother-in-law, Daniel Bailey. The bitterness thus en- 
gendered (party, not personal,) so disgusted John, that although 
urged to be on the next ticket, he would not consent. But in 1825 
and in 1826 he was elected Assemblyman, on what ticket I cannot 
say. In 1833 John Eichelberger died, being but a little over 37 
years of age. He too lies buried in the Franklin graveyard. 

JOHN EICHELBERGEK, Jr. 
John had two sons, both his namesakes, John and John Alex- 
ander. Of the elder we know nothing, except that he lived in 
Monaghan Township, York County, and was called " Monaghan 
John," to distinguish him from his brother. He served as a repre- 
sentative in the State Assembly and was also a Justice of the 
Peace ; but of his private life we know nothing. 

JOHN ALEXANDER EICHELBERGER. 

The younger son. John Alexander, left Dillsburg in his boyhood 
and went to Philadelphia. In 1855 he went to Eugene, Indiana, 
where he was employed in the dry goods trade. He inherited the 
paternal patriotism and in the Civil War enlisted in Co. K, 97th 
Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, but was not accepted, being over 
age. In 1864 he moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, where he lived 
until his death in 1870, being over 80 years of age. He had, while 
in Dillsburg in 1838, married Elenora Tolbert Chambus, and they 
had eight children. She is still living in Terre Haute, where three 
of her sons reside. 

The military spirit exists in this family as a whole, three of the 
sons having served gallantly in the Civil War. William Chambus, 
the oldest, gives us this slight sketch of his service : " Served in 
Medical Department of the United States Army as a Medical Cadet 
from September, 1861, to September, 1863 ; on duty for one month 
with the iGth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, being 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I47 

transferred to that regiment from Fairfax Street Hospital, then 
transferred to the Mansion House Hospital, thence back to the 
Fairfax Street Hospital, all in Alexandria, Virginia. Entire ser- 
vicee was in connection with Army of the Potomac. At the ex- 
piration of service entered into general practice at Eugene, Indiana, 
now in special practice in Terre Haute." The doctor is a noted 
specialist in Indiana, his treatment being confined especially to the 
eye and ear. He married Octavia Burnett, of Terre Haute, in 
January, 1877, ^^^ ^^^ only one son, Harry Burnett, who died in 
1888. 

John Stephens, second son of John Alexander, was born in 1843 
and died three years ago. He was married in 1869, soon after the 
close of the war, to Georgiana Monroe. They had three children, 
William Chambus, Jr., died when only seven years old, Frank and 
Hallie, living with their widowed mother in Terre Haute. John 
S. Eichelberger was also in the Civil War, and as a soldier won as 
much recognition as his medical brother, for he was a brave man. 

James A., the next brother in this trio of patriots, is now in the 
Military Home, in Danville, Illinois. He was in the 33d Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, and his whole record was a fine one. He 
never married. 

The fourth son of John Alexander, Charles Stansbery, was born 
in Eugene, Indiana. He was married to Mary Grace and was ac- 
cidentally killed in 1896. He left no children, and his widow soon 
followed him to the better land, dying in 1897. 

Eugene M, died at the age of two, and Clarence, the youngest, 
before his first birthday. Margaret June, the only daughter, was 
born in Philadelphia, and lived to be just 20 years of age. Arnold, 
the youngest to live through his childhood, was married to a Miss 
Clark, and has a son, Clark S. 

Thus the history of the four sons of Leonard and Elizabeth 
Eichelberger. 

DAUGHTERS OF LEONARD. 

Their six daughters married, most of them around Dillsburg, Pa., 
or to residents just outside that pretty country town. The very 



148 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY, 

farm and home place, " Wheatfield," bought and built upon by 

Leonard Eichelberger, is now owned and occupied by one of their 

descendants, 

MARY AND SARAH WELTY. 

The oldest daughter, Mary M., married Bernard Welty, and her 

sister Sarah, his brother, Frederick ; both had good-sized families, 

most of whom have or had beautiful homes in the near vicinity of 

Dillsburg. Mary M. and Bernard had seven children, two being 

girls, the rest sons, Daniel, Jacob, William, Joseph and James. 

Sarah and Frederick Welty had six children, Jeremiah, Eliza, 

Kezia, Caroline, Lydia and Levi. This last son was after the death 

of his cousin Frederick Eichelberger Bailey, married to his widow, 

and they resided in the ancestral home of Leonard's. Both are 

dead now. To Mr. Levi Welty we are indebted for much of this 

information of his grandfather and uncles. 

LYDIA EICHELBERGER BAILEY. 

Lydia, third daughter of Leonard, married Daniel Bailey, also 

of Dillsburg. Mr. Bailey was quite a politician, and in notes taken 

from those who remembered the time, he figures principally as the 

choice of the regular ticket for the Legislature in 1825 as against 

the " Winster." Mr. Bailey was defeated, but as the young party 

was instituted for the purpose of reforms thought necessary, the 

defeat was for the party ticket, not for the candidate. 

Lydia and Daniel had only two children, the first an infant 

daughter who was laid away with those great grandparents who 

were buried so near her earthly home, while the son, Frederick 

Eichelberger Bailey, was a great pride and comfort to his parents. 

He graduated at Gettysburg College, then became a lawyer in 

York of some note for so young a man, for he died before he was 

thirty. In 1845 he had married Matilda Doudel, of York, and they 

had two children, Daniel and Sarah Lydia. This promising young 

son died also when only in his 20th year. He served during the 

Civil War in Co. G, 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and 

was wounded in the battle of Gaines' Mills, before Richmond, Va., 

from the effects of which he died six weeks later, in August, 1862. 

True to the example of his forefathers, " his life for his country." 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I49 

Miss S. Lydia Bailey is living, and she is the only living repre- 
sentative of Leonard and Elizabeth Eichelberger to be found in or 
near Dillsburg, that place which was a home to so many of the line. 

SUSAN EICHELBERGER SHEARER. 
Susan, fourth daughter of Leonard, married Lewis Shearer, of 
York, and they to-day have descendants living in that city. 

CATHERINE EICHELBERGER. 
Catherine, a lovely young girl in the early dawn of womanhood, 
was accidentally drowned, near East Berlin, Pa., just four months 
after her fifteenth birthday. 

ELIZABETH EICHELBERGER RICHENBACH. 

Elizabeth, Leonard's youngest daughter and child, survived her 
mother just one year, dying very shortly after her marriage to 
Henry Richenbach, when she was but 20 years of age. 

This closes the history of Leonard and Elizabeth and their de- 
scendants. 



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Lewis Eichelberger. 

Fourth son of Philip Frederick and his second Wife, Magdalene. 



Lewis was born in 1752, and was really the sixth son and ninth 
child of our ancestor, but only the fourth son of Magdalene. He 
was never as active in the American struggle for independence as 
the rest of his family, but there may have been reasons for this of 
which we know nothing. He is described as being a man of me- 
dium height, heavy and of great strength ; he was of a ruddy com- 
plexion and of a combative disposition, but good natured withal. 
Up to the time of his marriage and a short time after, he resided 
with his parents. About 1773 '^^ '74i he married Elizabeth Bair, of 
Littlestown, Pa., who made him a good wife and a fond and faith- 
ful mother to the eleven children that she bore him. The five 



150 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

daughters were named, Martelina, -Elizabeth, Hannah, Sally and 
Lovis. The last two were twins and deaf mates. 

One of the saddest things connected with having homes in a 
new and war-invaded country is related of these two little ones and 
their mother. Having had a ''mixed army" quartered around 
them so long, in which the smallpox had been a most dreaded 
scourge, the people had become over cautious. There was a law 
(or order) that " all persons having contagious diseases must go 
from home to some house or place provided by the county." Lew- 
is, the" father, is reported to have died suddenly at a sale, in 1801. 
The following year these little twins were taken ill with the 
measles, became delirious, and were ordered to the only place 
"provided by the county," — the county almshouse. Here they 
were taken, here their mother followed, and on the journey they 
took severe colds and in a few days died. This sad little history 
made such an impression upon the entire family, and especially 
upon a nephew of Lewis's, a first cousin to these little girls, George 
M. Eichelberger, that as soon as he came to years of manhood and 
influence, he put forth every effort to have a home for such unfor- 
tunate children in his chosen home, Frederick, Maryland. And it 
was due to his efforts, mainly, that there was established a home 
of this kind in that city. So these two little ones did not live nor 
die in vain. 

Martelina, second daughter, was spending some time in Littles- 
town, Pa., when she was taken suddenly ill and died in a few days, 
aged only 16 years. Hannah, too, died in girlhood. 

ELIZABETH EICHELBERGER DOTTERER. 

Elizabeth, the only daughter of Lewis who married, was at the 
age of twenty married to Michael Dotterer, whose home was then 
in Pennsylvania. But the father of Michael, Conrad Dotterer, was 
interested very much in the proclamation made by President 
Thomas Jefferson, offering land to settlers in Columbus County, 
Ohio. Conrad Dotterer went first with his wife and younger chil- 
dren, and when Michael had won the girl of his heart, Elizabeth 
Eichelberger, and had married her, he took her out there, and 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 151 

wheti the young couple arrived at the home the father had made 
for his family, they found a deed of land in Beaver Township, Co- 
lumbus County, Ohio, made out in their name for a tract of land 
from the President of the United States, and bearing the signature 
of Secretary Staunton. This deed is now considered a family heir- 
loom among their descendants. Here this young couple then made 
their home, here their children were born, and now they long since 
deceased, their descendants have descendants in the States of 
Ohio and Indiana. 

Their family consisted of six sons and four daughters, Freder- 
ick, the oldest, was simple-minded, remained single, and died be- 
fore he was 40 years of age. John and George, both married and 
had children ; Jacob died while yet a mere lad, and David, who 
had large cotton mills at Liberty Mills, Wabash County, Indiana, 
also married. Michael Eichelberger Dotterer married Elizabeth 
Werne and established a fine business and built a pretty home for 
his family at Lowellville, Ohio. 

The daughters born to Elizabeth and Michael, all married. Ly- 
dia, the first, to a Mr. Miller, of Cincinnati ; Eliza, to Henry 
Wayne, of Indiana ; Sallie, to Jacob Coblentz, of North Lind, 
Washington County, Indiana ; while Anna Maria, whom it was my 
great pleasure to meet, married Henry Smith, of Lowellville, Ohio. 
She was early left a widow with four children, a son, Henry D., 
and three daughters. Mrs. Jacob Mohr and Mrs. Robert Erkskine, 
reside in Lowellville, as does their brother, who is Postmaster 
there, while Martha, the youngest, is married to J. L. Stewart, 
and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Several years ago Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Stewart came East on a 
visit, and knowing that I was engaged upon the work which has 
since developed into this present Record, came to see me. They 
were the only representatives of my father's cousin, Elizabeth, 
that I had ever seen ; and I was glad to welcome two such pleas- 
ant and congenial descendants of my great-uncle, Lewis Eichel- 
berger. Mrs. Smith has since died, but I must here make mention 
that to her I am indebted for almost all the knowledge we have of 
the descendants of Elizabeth Eichelberger, who married Michael 



ig2 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Dotterer, All their daughters had families, 1 ara told, but as I did 
not learn their names, I could not mention them in this Record. 

FREDERICK EICHELBERGER. 

Frederick, namesake of that grandparent whose death came the 
same year as his own birth, was the oldest son of Lewis and Eliza- 
beth. He married and had children, but we only know the name 
of one, — Joseph. The reason for this is: Frederick went West 
soon after his marriage, and while his children still were young. 
His nephew, Adam L. Eichelberger, who assisted me with most of 
the knowledge I have of his father and uncles, was quite young 
also, when his uncle Frederick went West. He remembers only 
his cousin Joseph. 

ADAM EICHELBERGER. 

Adam, second son of Lewis, moved early in 1800 to Frederick 
County, Md. There he married, brought up his family and died. 
He married Polly Koontz ; their children were, — Adam Lewis, 
Greenbury, Henry Martin, Lewis, Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, and 
Susan. Polly Eichelberger was a good woman, whose plain ways 
and helpful manner made her loved and remembered by her neigh- 
bors for many a long day after her death. She died about 1837, 
and two years after Adam married a widow, Mrs. Hannah Leppold. 
By this wife he had a family of five children, Peter, Neil, Joseph- 
ine Catherine, Clementine and Hannah. Shortly after these little 
ones were born, Adam died, in 1849. Then Mrs. Hannah Eichel- 
berger took her five children and went to Springfield, Ohio. There 
she probably made her home, but no inquiries have enabled us to 
find trace of any of them since. The daughters of Adam all lived 
in Frederick County, Md. There all but one, Susan, the youngest, 
married Marylandei's, and raised their children in that State ; Sa- 
rah married a Mr. Abrecht, Mary a Mr. Beall, and Rebecca a Mr. 
Smith. 

ADAM LEWIS EICHELBERGER. 

Adam Lewis, their oldest brother, was raised like themselves in 
Frederick County. He was a plain man, but a good husband and 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I53 

father, a loyal citizen, and a practical farmer. He had a pleasant 
farm just outside of Frederick City, and here he took his wife, 
Sarah Elizabeth Hahn, of Littlestown, Pa., to live. Their children 
were, William H., Francis, Marian and Abraham. These, I sup- 
pose, are living in parts of Maryland to-day, but I could find no 
trace of them. Adam, his wife Polly, their son, Adam L., and his 
wife Sarah, are all sleeping in the Lutheran Church yard at Fred- 
erick. This family were all Lutherans so far. 

When Lewis took the farm in Adams County, Pa., the church 
records give this : " Lewis and his wife Elizabeth communed July 
24th, 1785." Jacob, Sarah, Michael, George and Hannah, were 
all baptized there in St. John's Church, Littlestown, Pa. Elizabeth 
Dotterer communed there first time August 15th, 1798, just after 
her marriage. John and Elizabeth (Eichelberger yet) communed 
October 29th, 1787 ; Martelina in 1796. 

GREENBURY EICHELBERGER. 
Greenbury, the second son of Adam and Polly, was not as fond 
of home life and farming as his brother. Adam L., he was more of 
a disciple of Isaac Walton. He married Mary Elizabeth Barnds in 
1836. They had eight children, Elenora Catherine, who married a 
Mr. Sraoot and lives out at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. She 
has two children. James Weldon, first son of Greenbury, was born 
in 1838, and enlisted in the Civil War as a private. He was killed 
in the battle of the Wilderness, in Virginia. Laura Madaline, born 
in 1841, died when only 22. Daniel Greenbury, born in 1844, is 
married and living with his wife in Washington, D. C. They have 
no children. Lewis Cass, third son of Greenbury, died in 1872 at 
just the age when life looks fairest, 21. Mary Elizabeth and Mary 
Elenora were twins who died in their childhood. Eliza Barnds 
Eichelberger, youngest of this family, is living now at Point of 
Rocks, Maryland. She has never married. The wife of Green- 
bury having died in 1854, he in 1867 married Mary Elizabeth 
Knouff'e, who survives him with one son, John Franklin.Eichel- 
berger, who lives with his mother in Baltimore, and is not yet 
married. 

2U 



154 "^^^ EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Henry Martin and Lewis, younger son of Adam, Sr., never mar- 
ried, indeed Henry M. died while but yet a boy, and Lewis lived 
to be not much more. 

LUDWIG AND MICHAEL EICHELBERGER. 

Ludwig or Lewis, as we would call him now, but then the real 
German name was Ludwig, which he was called also to distinguish 
him from his father, was the third son of Lewis and Elizabeth. 
He was in the War of 1812 ; we find his name in the list of Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers for that war, as a private. He was afterwards 
killed near Gettysburg, Pa., but not during that war. He never 
married ; nor did his next brother, Michael, who was killed in a 
harvest field near Littlestown, whether by sunstroke or by ma- 
chinery we cannot say. 

JACOB EICHELBERGER. 

Jacob, the fifth brother, or Johanne Jacob, as the church record 
calls him, was born in March, 1786, and about 1814 married Cath- 
erine Koontz, a sister to the wife of his brother, Adam. He lived 
first in Adams County, Pa. His oldest children were Anna Maria, 
Loudan, Samuel and Catherine. When these were still little folk, 
Jacob emigrated to North Lima, Ohio. Here Anna Savilla, Wil- 
liam Lewis, George Henry. Mary Lovina and Nancy Margaret 
were born. The family, all dead now except George Henry and 
Mary Lovina, lived for many years in North Lima, and then moved 
to DeKalb, Indiana, where he bought a farm and where he and 
his good wife Catherine, breathed their last. 

ANNA MARIA KRONE. 

Their oldest daughter, Anna Maria, married Anthony Kronk ; 
they lived first in Ohio, later in Elkhart, Ind., and had a family of 
ten children. The oldest son, Loudan Kronk, is married and lives 
in St. Louis, Mich., with his family, while the rest have married 
and scattered over the Central Western States. It was at the home 
in Elkhart that the elder Kronks held, not many years ago, their 
golden .wedding, a scene of family rejoicing that none enjoyed 
more than Mrs. Kronk, but a very short time after she was taken 
seriously ill, and soon died. Thus joy and sorrow, hand in hand. 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I55 

LOUDAN EICHELBERGER. 
Loudan. the eldest son of Jacob and Catherine, was born in 
Adams County, Pa., and as a child was taken West with his par- 
ents. He grew to manhood on the Ohio farm, married in that 
State and later moved to Waterloo, Indiana, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his days, dying when in his 79th year. Of his family 
of five daughters and two sons, there are no grandchildren bearing 
the family name, as his two sons died single ; his daughters all 
have descendants of other names. 

SAMUEL EICHELBERGER. 
^. Samuel, second son of Jacob, never married, but lived a plain, 
uneventful life, and died at the home of his brother, William Lew- 
is, over twenty years ago. 

WILLIAM LEWIS EICHELBERGER. 

Of this brother who comes next in the line, William Lewis, we 
have more history. He was a patriotic, public-spirited citizen, and 
when the Civil War broke out, was among the first to offer his ser- 
vices ; he joined a company, but was twice rejected on account 
of the physical examination finding him unfit for the service. He 
was a consistent member of the church where he served faithfully 
until his death in Northwood, Iowa, on Thanksgiving Day, four- 
teen years ago. When about 25 years old he left Ohio, for Iowa, 
where he met and married Jane Newton, who bore him seven chil- 
dren, three of whom died while yet babes. His wife died in Au- 
gust, 1887. The surviving children are, Edward F., still single, 
living in Woodstock, Illinois, where he has a fine position connect- 
ed with the railroad works there. When President McKinley call- 
ed for volunteers in 1898, he enlisted in the company formed by 
his brother, went with them to the State rendezvous at Springfield, 
but was rejected on physical examination. Like his father, his 
heart responded to the call of his country. 

The daughters of William L. have both married in Iowa. Mary 
E. married Andrew Walser, and they live on their fine farm near 
Northwood, where beside the far-famed Iowa corn and other grains 
they are raising two sturdy Iowa lads and lassies. 



I5G THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

Mrs. Walser's sister, Ida May, married James Barker, another 
lovvain ; they also have a farm in that State, where they with 
their children reside. 

CAPT. WILLIAM C. EICHELRERGEK. 

The youngest son of William Lewis is William Carson, common- 
ly called "Captain." He was born in 1869, lived with his parents 
until after their death, entered a law office in 1885 where he made 
a special study of Abstracts, and in a short time began the work of 
the kind which has since led to his being Director, Manager and 
Treasurer in the McHenry County Abstract Company, which com- 
pany he formed, and which has its office in Woodstock, where the 
Captain lives. He is married to Edith Boutelle, by whom he has 
three little children, Leslie E., Bessie E. and Glen Bennitt. We 
have in this history the names of soldiers in every war which 
America has carried on, but to Captain Carson Eichelberger be- 
longs the distinction of being the only one of the name, of whom 
we can hear, who served in the late Spanish- American War. He 
enlisted about ten years ago as a private in the Minnesota National 
Guard, where he served two years, during which he saw three 
days of active service in suppressing a riot in the lumber camps in 
Cloquet. He was Corporal in the Illinois National Guard, Novem- 
ber, 1893, was elected Captain of Co. G, Third Infantry, September, 
1893, ^^^ twice re-elected. Served as Corporal six days active ser- 
vice in Lamont, Illinois, July, 1893, suppressing a riot on the 
Grand Drainage Canal. Commanded his company during three 
weeks active service in Chicago during the great Railroad strike of 
1894 ; volunteered with his company for the war with Spain ; left 
Woodstock for Springfield, 111., in April, and was there mustered 
into the United States service. This company was known in the 
United States service as Co. G, Third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 
They left Springfield in May, for Chickamauga Park, Georgia, from 
which place they sailed in July, for Porto Rico, on the Auxiliary 
Cruiser St. Louis. As the Captain himself tells us : "Our Regi- 
ment was honored by Major General John R. Brooke, Commander 
of the expedition, selecting it as his escort. We first touched at 
Ponce, where we found General Miles, who had arrived there from 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 157 

Cuba a few days before, and were directed to Arroya, landing there 
August 2d ; remained on the island two months. But little can be 
said of our service there, as there was no fighting except that for 
health, against the tropical fevers, poor food, etc. Personally, I 
enjoyed excellent health, gaining in flesh nearly every day, but 
from my company we buried two brave fellows on the island, one 
died on the way home and was buried at sea, and two more died 
after reaching home. It was a happy day, October 2d, when we 
sailed for home on the Roumanian, but none were more eager 
than I to reach there, having just received news of the birth of a 
little son, on September 27th. Colonel Fred. Bennitt was our Regi- 
mental Commander, hence baby's middle name. We landed in 
New York, November 9th, and reached home on the nth. "Were 
given a two months furlough and were mustered out at Woodstock, 
Illinois, January 14th, 1899. I am still in the Illinois National 
Guard, where I am now serving as Major." After giving this 
solely at my request, the Captain says: " This matter is given 
you in a rambling shape, but I hope you may be able to cull some- 
thing from it if you still wish." We considered that the whole 
story as told by the Captain was of sufficient interest to be given 

entire. 

DAUGHTERS OF JACOB EICHELBERGER. 

Catherine, second daughter of Jacob and Catherine, married 
John Heiserman, in Ohio, in 1844, ^^^ died in six months time. 
Ann Savilla married a Mr. Stambaugh ; and Mary Lovina, J. O. 
McEndafer, and at his death a Mr. Myers. These two sisters have 
both raised families and lived near each other in Michigan for some 
time. Mr. Myers died a few years ago. Nancy Margaret married 
James N. Kennedy, of Indiana, in 1858, and died in 1865 — leaving 
two children surviving her. 

Mrs. Lovina Myers and George Henry Eichelberger are the only 
survivors of this once large family. He, the youngest son, is now 
living with his youngest child; Harriet, at Pontiac, Illinois. He 
married in i860, Lenora L. Lockwood, and had seven children. 
Three of these died young. Stephen L. married and has one child 
living in Ottawa, Illinois. Henry married and lives near his fath- 



158 THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

er in Pontiac ; has no children. George F. lives on a farm a short 
distance from Pontiac, single, and Harriet L, is keeping house and 
living at home. This estimable young ladj^ has a nice position in 
the Telephone Union Office of her home city. Her father is now 
70 years of age, her mother having died while she was but yet a 
babe. 

This closes the line of Jacob and Catherine Koontz Eichelberger 
— he being next to the youngest son of Lewis, who was the young- 
est also of his father's sons. Jacob died in Ohio, September 6th, 
1855, aged 6g years ; and Catherine, March 19th, 1847, aged 52 
years, 2 months and 27 days. 

With Jacob we close the history of those sons of Lewis and Eliza- 
beth who married. There was only one more son, George, who 
died in childhood ; and with the mention of him we complete this 
line. Of the exact date of the death of Lewis Eichelberger we can 
only give a surmise, but it is as nearly correct as we conld make it. 
Of his wife Elizabeth, who was a gentle and lovely Christian wom- 
an, we have often been told the story of her living to that great 
age of a century and more. This has been confirmed many times, 
but without our ever being able to find the exact date of her 
death. 



As shown by the copied records of the church at Ittlingen, Ger- 
many, there were many cousins and relatives of our name in that 
place up to the year 1732. The surmise by my reverend friend, 
that Johanne George was a first cousin of Philip Frederick is most 
probably correct, as he was born about the beginning of the eigh- 
teenth century ; while the other relative, in what degree a rela- 
tive we are unable to discover, who came to this country, must 
have been the son of either a brother or cousin of our ancestor. 

The cousin, (as I take him to be,) most likely left Ittlingen be- 
fore 1720, went to some other town or city, to try that before 
going so far from home. At any rate. Christopher was not born 
in Ittlingen, but in Baden ; but as there is no other place traceable 
for the family birthplace, we have come to the conclusion that 



THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. I59 

his father moved away from there early in 1700. We must give 
credence to the report so rife among us, that three "brothers," so 
say some, or "cousins," as others believe them to have been, left 
the old homeplace at nearly the same time, and finally came, they, 
or two of them and the descendant of one, to America. We know 
very little of them, and still less of their descendants. Several 
times we have come across very interesting people of our name, 
whom we would have been pleased to claim as of our direct line, 
but in tracing them back we found them to be descended directly 
from either Johanne George or Christopher. 

Christopher Eichelberger, born in Baden, Germany, March 20th, 
1720, came to America when not more than 18 years of age. He 
settled first near Lancaster, married there and has descendants 
living in that legion now. He then moved to near Shiremans- 
town. Pa. He belonged to the vestry of the Lutheran Church 
there, spoken of as " Friedens Kirche," or Salem's church, in 1807. 
Probably the same church near which he is buried. He and his 
seem to have fully imbibed the same loyalty toward this country 
as they bore the beloved Faderland, and which is such a strong 
family characteristic. 

Among the several of his line whom it has been our good fortune 
to discover, and disappointment to surrender to him, we must 
mention an interesting veteran, a soldier bearing the name of John 
Eichelberger, now located at the Soldiers' Home in Los Angeles, 
California. Thinking him belonging to our immediate connection, 
we wrote to him, and received in return a reply in interest and in- 
formation surpassed by none. His account of the adventures en- 
countered by the two different regiments to which he belonged in 
the Civil War, makes historical reading of the brightest kind. We 
take this opportunity to thank him for his prompt courtesy and 
lively interest, and are glad to think that he is a connection, if 
only a distant one, and are sorry that time and space do not al- 
low of our giving his story in full. He has traveled much, has met 
many of our name, and has the different lineages pretty correct. 

"Johanne George Eichelberger came from Ittlingen," says I. D. 
Hupp, in his History, "August 28th, 1733, on the Ship Hope, Dan- 



l6o THE EICHELBERGER FAMILY. 

iel Reid Master, from London first, then Rotterdam, last from 
Cowes, with 309 Palatinates." "This settlement of Germans came 
from Schoria, New York, where they had, some of them, settled 
in 1710, through the Mohawk Valley, where a number remained, 
and so down to Lebanon County, Pa." Here it was likely that 
George was, when Christopher first came over, and was probably 
the reason of his settling there, or near there. "In 1743, George 
was a member of the Tulpehooken Church (Reformed and Luther- 
an combined,) in Lebanon County, Pa, He only remained a mem- 
ber there until 1746." This George is reported to have then re- 
moved to the southern part of Virginia or South Carolina. The 
stories about them differ ; but we cling to the opinion that he was 
the George who settled in the South. Among his descendants we 
found that well-known Adam Eichelberger, who is called "The 
King of Orange Growers," and whose children's children live in 
that part of the country to-day. Also a Rev. John Eichelberger, 
a minister in the Lutheran church, who preached in South Carolina. 
He was so beloved, so talented, and had such true Christian grace 
that his people almost worshiped him, and during his decline, for 
he died young from that dread foe, consumption, one and all 
nursed him with tender love and gentleness, and after his death his 
coffin was carried two miles on the shoulders of his parishioners. 

There was also another Captain Adam Eichelberger, who belong- 
ed to this branch, noted for personal bravery and strategic leader- 
ship in the War of the Revolution. There were many more in 
this family of whom we have heard, who were men of note in 
their day and generation. 

There was also a George Bastian Eichelberger, who came to 
Pennsylvania, and has descendants all over our State, of none of 
whom we know enough to quote thf^ir actions, but we feel assured 
that they must have been good men and true, for we have heard 
nothing to their discredit. 

This name we bear is a plain name, one which has never graced 
a Gubernatorial chair, nor yet the Presidential, but which has 
never fallen, either, to any depth of baseness. 

FINIS. 



ERRATA. 



Since the manuscript of this work has been placed in the hands of 
the printer, we have been informed of some interesting data concern- 
ing the Eichelbergers in Ittlingen, early in 1600, and also have receiv- 
ed some corrections as to statements made in the History. That data 
and those corrections we gladly give here : 

First, the device on the cover is a fac simile of the seal of the Bar- 
ony of Gemmingen. 

On page 14 of the history you will see that I have given Ittlingen as 
in the Barony of Benning ; thus it was given to me by the gentleman 
who translated the Certificate for me. To procure a copy of this seal, 
I, in March, 1901, wrote to the Burgess of Ittlingen, who kindly sent 
me several copies and in his letter called the Barony, Gemmingen. — 
Whether the difference is due to an early error, or whether a change 
has been made in the ensuing 170 years, I cannot say. But Ittlingen 
is now evidently situated in the Barony of Gemmingen. 
^ In hisi reply, written April, 1901, the Burgess says that in the old 
town records he has found vouchers given to Eichelbergers, early in 
1600, for quantities of wood delivered to the town ; making one think 
that the ancestral home was out upon the wooded mountains, as given 
in our translation of the name on page 9. The Burgess also says that 
there are none of our name living at this time in Ittlingen. 

Now for errors of which we have lately been informed : On page 40 
we have stated that Sarah, daughter of Barnitz, married Abraham 
Baumgartner, that they had no children, and Mr Baumgartner soon 
died. They, however, had two daughters and one son, and Mr. Baum- 
gartner lived many years after their marriage. After his death, his 
wife did finally make her home with her own family. 

In the Colonial history of John, son of John Frederick, as given on 
page 57, we were told of well-authenticated reports, among his de- 
scendants, that he fought in the battles of Bunker Hill and of Lexing- 
ton ; but we could find no record of it and we have tried to be histori- 
cally correct in all of our military statements : so fearing we might be 
questioned if we gave the story as fact of a Marylander participating 
in battles which history says were fought by New England farmers 
alone, on the Colonial side, we determined to only mention the report 
here. John was a member of two Pennsylvania companies, the first a 



body of riflemen under Captain Micliael Doudel, and later of Col. 
Samuel Miles' Rillc Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, not Niles, 
of Maryland, as stated on page 57. Most likely John was visiting, or 
learning a trade among his numerous cousins in York, when the Rev- 
olutionary ardor reached its height, and thus joined a Pennsylvania 
Regiment. 

On page 64, the word " Urbaba" as the home of Joseph, is a typo- 
graphical error ; it should be Urbana. 

On page 100 we have given the only daughter of Andrew and Isa- 
bella as a widow ; her husband, the Rev. A. M. Buchanan, is living 
and doing good work in the Christian ministry. We have also spoken 
of the two sons of Andrew as dying young ; the eldest, Jonathan New- 
ton, lived to be twenty-one, dying in California. 

On page 142, giving the family of Maria, daughter of Jacob, of the 
line of Leonard, we made several mistakes : Mrs. Maria McCosh and 
her husband both died within the last ten years and their only daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Arthur Clark, is now a widow, with two children. 

We fear there are many other errors, but the statements were print- 
ed as given to us. 

I would like to state that I have the inventory of the estate of Cap- 
tain Caspar Reinacker, taken after his decease, and judging from the 
great number of items, which embrace houses, lands, slaves, &c., down 
to the smallest article of domestic industry, we would suppose him to 
have been a man of affairs. 



GENEALOGICAL RECORD 



OF 



PHILIP FRED'K EICHELBERGER 



AND 



Anna Barbara Dorners, First Wife, and Mary Magdalene, 

Second Wife. 



21 



Genealogical Record 



OF 



Philip Frederick Eichelberger and His First Wife, Anna Barbara 

Dorners, and Mary Magdalene , His 

Second Wife. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Nov. 11,' 
1714. 



March, 
1736. 



II 



II 



July, 1738 



March, 
1743. 



II 
III 



II 
III 

II 



Philip Fred'k Eichel ) 
berger, >■ 

A.nna Barbara Dorners ) 
John Martin, 
Anna Margretta, 
John Frederick, 
Margretta Barbara, 
Anna Barbara or Eliza 
btth, 



Philip Fred'k Eichel- 
berger, 
Mary Magdalene 

Adam, 

Jacob, 

Leonard, 

Lewis, 



DAUGHTERS OP 

Philip Frederick Eictel- 
berger and Anna Bar- 
bara Dorners. 

Anna Margretta, ) 
Vincent Keefer, ) 

Barbara, 

Catherine, 

Sabina, 

Valentine, 



Margretta Barbara, ) 
Andrew Hoke, [ 

Michael and others. 



Anna Barbara or Eliza- 
beth, 
Jacob Smyser. 
Issue unknown. 



Germany and Pa. 



York Co., and Han- 
over, Pa. 



Apr. 17, 1693 



Nov 16 1716 
Mar. 2, 1720 
Feb. 18, 1722 
Sept. 9, 1724 
Feb. 7, 1727 



Apr. 17, 1693 



May 9, 1738 

Sepl.26, 1746 

Aug 12,1750 

1752 



Sept. 19,1776 
1809 



Germany and York 
Co., Pa. 



Ger. and York Co. Pa. 
York Co , Pa , and 
South Carolina. 



Germany and Pa. 



Mar. 2, 1720 

1739 

1742 

1744 

Feb. 22, 1749 



Sept. 9, 1724 



Feb. 7, 1727 



1770 



Unknown. 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1738. 



Single 



Mar. 24, 
1761. 



178). 
Single. 



. 1809. 
Single 



II 
III 



III 
IV 



DESCENDANTS OF 

Martin Eichelberger, ) 
Anna Maria, ) 

George, 

Frederick Christian, 

Jacob, 

Bernard or Barnet, 

Martin, Jr., 

Susannah, 

Marv, 

Lydia, 

George Eichelberger ) 
Lydia Worley, f 

Jacob, 

John, 

Martin, 

George, 

James, 

Mary, 

Lydia S. 



Germany and York, 
Pa. 



IV 



York, Pa. 



York, Pa. 



Nov. 16, 1716 

June 23,1739 
Nov. 17,1744 
Mar. 12.1743 

1746 

Jan. 7. 1759 

Feb. 6, 1756 

1749 

1754 



June 23, 1739 

1762 
1764 
1766 
1768 
1770 
1772 
1774 



1781 
1790 



About 1780 



Died youug 
Aug. 30,1780 



an, [ 



V 
VI 



1831. 

2d Wife. 

Single. 



V 
VI 

VI 



Jacob Eichelberge 
Elizabeth Burnetso 

Charles, 

Georce Steyer, 

William, 

Samuel, 

Nelson, 

Baker, 



George S Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Rutter, ) 

William George, 

Lawrence, 

Jonathan, 

Elizabeth M., 

Frances Harriet, 

Mary Ann, 

Hester Dysart, 

Isaac Burnetson, 

Nelson Read, 

George 8 Eichelberger, ) 
Eliza Ann Boyle, \ 

James, 

Emma Lawrence, 

Thomas Speer, 



York, Pa., and Balti- 
more, Md. 
Baltimore. 



Baltimore. 



Baltimore. 






l( 



1762 

1786 
May 27, 1788 
June ;-0,1791 
Aug. 30,1795 

1797 
May 13, 1799 

Ma.y 27. 1788 

1810 
1812 
1815 
1817 
1819 
1822 
1824 
1825 
1827 



Diedr young 

1833 
Died in inf y 



Elizabeth M. Eichel- 1 
berger, V 

John Curlett, } 

VII Mary Eugenia, (Mr 
Martine ) 
Ida, (G. B. Kent). 
Thomas S. 



Baltimore. 
« 

Baltimore. 

« 
(I 

K 
It 



Dead. 



1860 
Died youug 



1817 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Single. 
Single. 



Single. 
Single. 
Single. 

1827 



Single. 

Jan. 29, 
1844. 

Married. 
Single. 



Single. 
Single. 



VI Mary Ann Eicbelberg- 
er, 

Thomas Speer, Jr., 
No issue. 

VI Thomas S. Eichelberg- 
er, 
Mary Lee, 
VII Nelson, 
Bessie, 
Mary, 

VII Nelson Eichelberger, ) 
Josephine Hoffacker, J 

VIII Helen. 
Thomas, 
Mary, 

V William Eichelberger, 
Mrs. Henrietta Luke — 

nee Brown, 

VI Maria Louise, 
Nannie Read, 
William, 
Helen Ward, 
William, 
Henrietta, 
Alice, 
Henrietta, 
Samuel Eccleston, 
Laura S., 
John Carroll, 
Frank T., 
Lewis, 

VI Maria Louisa, daughter 
of William, 
Oliver B. Wight, ) 

VII Henrietta Maria, 
William 8 , 

Oliver J, (Ella J. Ray.) 
Chas. Bernard, (Lizzie 

Spencer ) 
Nannie, (James Bucks, 

M. D.) 
Maria Louisa, (J. F 

Ringnold.) 
Laura Helen, 
John A , 

VI Nannie Read, daughter ) 

of William, } 

[.D., ) 



Baltimore, Md , 



Baltimore, Md. 



t< 

Baltimore, Md. 

(t 

(( 
<i 
Baltimore, Md, 









Deceased 



Baltimore, Md. 



VI 



VII 



Keenan, M. 



No issue. 

Helen W., daughter of 

William, 
Wm Burt, M. D. 
Dola, 



Baltimore, Md. 



June 30, 1791 



Jan. 20, 1828 

18H0 

1831 

1827 

1829 

1832 

1834 

1835 
Nov. 29.1836 

1840 

1838 

1842 

1844 

Jan. 20, 1838 



Oct. 25, 1845 
Jan. 20, 1847 
Juce 2, 1848 
1832 

1854 

1856 

1859 
1861 

1830 



1860 



Died in inf y 






Deceased 



June 16, 1889 
June 30, 1889 

Dec. 11, 1887 



South Carolina 



1827 



6 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




VI 
VII 


William Eichelberger, / 


Baltimore, Md. 




Aug.30, 1879 




Harry L., 




1804. 


VI 


Samuel E.Eichelberger ) 
tSijphia B. Andrews, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


Nov.37, 1836 


Nov.lO, 1900 


1st wife. 








1880 




VII 


Charles A , 
Henrietta M., 




1865 
1867 




Single. 




Caroline A., 


Baltimore, Md. 


1868 




Single. 




Nannie R., 
Sophia B., 








Single. 




Samuel Eccleston, Jr. 


Baltimore, Md. 


1878 








Dwight E., 


(4 


1879 




Single. 




Maria, 


(( 






Single. 




Joseph L 


U 






Single 




Macdalene, 


ti 






1881 


VI 


Samuel E Eichelberger ) 
Ijouise E. Turner, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


Nov.37, 1836 


Nov.lO, 1900 


2d wife 










Single 


VII 


Eugene T., 




18^3 t^^ 


t 


Single. 




Bernard T., 




1884 * 


4 


Single. 




William E , 




1886 




Single. 




Geo^^e, 


• 


1889 




Single. 




Marion, 




1892 






VII 


Ohas. A , son of Sam'l ) 


state of Washing- 








VIII 

VII 


ton. 








) 




■ 


Henrietta M , daughter ) 




4 


«i 






of Samuel, > 


Baltimore, Md. 










Sidney Haywood, ) 










VIII 

















I 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD 



Marriaae 



Gen 



Apr. 1900 



1790 



Single. 



VII 



VIII 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Sophia B., daughter of 

Samuel, 
Thomas Howard 



VII 

VIII 

VI 

VI 
VII 



Dwight E.Eichelberger 



Baltimore, Md. 



Baltimore, Md. 



Nannie R.Eichelberger ) 
Thomas Keenan, M. D. ) 
No issue. 

Laura G., daughter of) 
William, i 

William Adi, 



VI John Carroll, son of 
William, 



VII 

VI 

VII 

IV 

V 



Baltimore, Md. 



Harford Co., Md. 



Harford Co., Md. 



Frank T,, son of Wm. 



Washington, D. C. 



V 
VI 



John Eichelberger, ) 
Sarah Dinkle, \ 

Eliza, 

Maria,- 

Daniel, 

Henrietta, 

Mary, 

George, 

William, 

Eliza Eichelberger, ) 
Jacob Lingenfelter, ) 
Issue unknown. 



York, Pa. 





1792 




1795 




May 26, 1798 




1800 




1806 




Nov. 7, 1810 


Texas. 


1812 


York, Pa. 


1792 


Baltimore, Md. 





Birth. 



1878 



1830 



1762 



Death, 



Deceased. 
Deceased. 
Deceased. 
Deceased. 
Deceased. 



8 



EICHELBERQER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


Maria Eichelberger, } 
Mrfurflrll f 


York, Pa, 


1795 


Unknown. 






If issue, unknown. 








1820. 


V 


Daniel Eichelberger, | 
Rebecca Smyser, ) 
John, 


York, Pa. 


May 26, 1798 
Jan. 29, 1821 


June 20, 1852 






Mary Jane, (Ed, Epley) 


York, Pa. 


1828 








Elizabeth, (L. Rosen- 


It 


1832 








miller ) 












Georgiana, (J. A. Weis- 


i{ 


1834 








er.) 








Single. 




Martin S., 


(( 


Jan. 27, 1836 


July 12, 1892 


1852. 


VI 


John Eichelberger, ) 
Amanda Mclntyre, [ 


York, Pa., Ohio and 


Jan. 29, 1821 


Feb. 16, 1896 






Richland Center, 


June 1, 1829 


Oct., 1892. 




VII 


Norman M , 
Catherine Rebecca, 
John Ferguson, 


Wisconsin. 


Sept., 1853 
Nov. 4, 1855 




Single. 




Henry Martin, 


Los Angeles, Cal. 


Sept. 1, 1869 




June 9, 


VII 


Norman M.Eichelberg- ) 

er, \ 

Cora Bartlett, ) 


Mansfield, Ohio. 


Sept., 1853 




1881 














Towanda, Pa. 










No issue 








June 9, 


VII 


Catherine R Eichel- ) 


Mansfield, Ohio. 


Nov. 4, 1855 




1880. 




berger, [ 
B. B Dirlara, ) 


(i 








VIII 


Howard Kenneth, 


i( 


1881 








Jay Neil, 


it 


1883 








Catherine, 


ti 


1885 








Robert York, 


« 


1889 




1892. 


VII 


John F. Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Lawlor, ) 


Mansfield, Ohio. 


May 2, 1863 








(1 








VIII 


Helen, 
Margaretta, 










VI 


MaryJane Eichelberger) 
Edward Eppley, ) 


York, Pa. 


1828 


Unknown. 






i. 








VII 


Jabez, 


(t 




II 






Edward D., 


t( 




11 






Francis M. 


New York City. 




; 




VI 


Elizabeth Eichelberger ) 
Leou Rosenmiller, ) 


York, Pa. 




Unknown. 






II 




II 


Single. 


VII 


Juliana Annie, 


ii 




II 


Single. 




Edwin William, 


i( 




Ii 


Single. 




Joseph Elias, 


ti 






Single. 




Josiah Frederick, 


i( 




i 



I 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



9 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



VI 

VII 



Georgiana Eichelberger 
John A. Weiser, 
Henry Weiser, 



Single 

Single. 
Single. 



V Henrietta Eichelberger 

Myers, 

VI Issue unknown. 



Mary Eichelberger, } 
-John Eichelberger, [ 
Issue given elsewhere. 



George Eichelberger,) 

M D. ';. 

Maria G -Spangler, ) 
VI Adolphus Spangler, 
Albert Peter, 

George Gardner, 

Jessie Amanda, 

Sallie Diokle, 

John, 

Maria Gordon, 

Ophelia, 

Kate, 

Gardner Spangler, 

Maltie, 



York, Pa. 



York, Pa. 



near Baltimore, Md 



Feb. 7, 
1855. 



VI 



VII 



Oct. 1, 
1880. 



VII 



VIII 



Adolphus 8. Eichel- 
berger, 
Toseohine Givin, 

Alice, 

George M., 

Harry, 

Belle, 

Robert, 

Willie, 



Alire Eichelberger, ) 
Lewis B. Givin, [ 

Harry, 

Andrean, 

Alice, 



York, Pa. and St 
Louis, Mo. 



1834 
Mar. 10,1852 

1798 
1806 



East St. Louis, Mo. 



East St. Louis, Mo. 



Nov.15, 1810 

Oct. 13, 1813 
Mar. 13, 1833 
Mar 31, 1834 

Feb. 28, 1836 

Nov.lO, 1837 
Apr. 13, 1839 
Oct. 2 1840 
June 4. 1^43 
Nov.ir, 1844 
June 9, 1846 
Aug.l8, 1848 
Dec. 18, 1850 



Mar. 12, 1833 



Dec. 4, 1851 

June 3, 1890 

Nov. 2, 1891 
Drowned in 

tbeMississip 
pi. May, 1844 

Aug., 1841 
Oct. 1, 1891 



K 
II 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Aug 7, 1857 
Oct 25, 1859 
Dec 17. 1864 
Feb 10, 1868 
June 25,1871 
Mar. 1, 1874 



Dec. 19, 1898 



Oct. 17, 1888 



22 



10 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth 


Death. 


Jan, 13, 


VII 


Belle Eichelberger, 
Moses Goyetta, 








1893. 




St. Paul, Minn. 








VIII 


Belle, 


11 


Nov 3, 1893 








Blanche, 


t< 


.Ian. 30, 1S98 




April 15. 


VII 


Harry Eichelberger, | 
Annie Hagerman, \ 


East St. Louis, Mo. 






1896. 












VIII 


Edwin P. 




Jan 19, 1898 




April 10, 


VII 


Willie Eichelberger, ) 
LillieVogel, \ 


Taylorville, 111. 






189G. 












VIII 


Freddie, 


n 


June 6, 1897 








Clara, 


(. 


May 11, 1899 




Oct. 15, 


VI 


Albert P. Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Barada, J 


S. St. Louis, Mo. 


Mar.[31. 1834 


Nov. 3, 1891 


1863. 






May 6. 184i 




Married. 


VII 


Albert, 




Sept 35, 1864 




it 




Fa'iuio, 




June 38, '866 




t( 




Helen, 




Sept. 5, 1869 


June 13, 1887 


11 




Ed«Fard, 




Nov. 19, 1867 




<i 




Isabel, 


De Soto, Mo. 


Mar. 6, 1873 




It 




Elizabeth, 




Aug. 5, 1874 


Aug. 36, 1879 


(1 




Lewis, 




June 16,1«79 




ti 




William, 




Nov. 1, 1881 


Dec. 3, 1889 


11 




Raymond, 




July' 5. 1884 


Jan. 30, 1894 


tt 




Maud, 




Sept:37,1876 


1 



I 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



11 



Marriage Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1873. 


VI 


Gardner S Eichelberg- J 
er, [• 


S. St Louis, Mo. 


Aug. 17,1849 




1st wife. 




Mary F. Hickey, ) 




May 10, 1854 


Junes, 1888 




VII 


John, 
William, 




June 9, 1880 
May 6, 1883 




June ^, 


VI 


Gardner S. Eichelberg- ) 


St. Loui3. 






1886. 




f 
er, V 








2d wife. 




Jennie Marshall, ) 


ti 


Sep. 10, 1858 






VII 


Walter, 


(> 


Mar, 31, 188^ 








Ophelia, 


It 


Nov 5, 1890 








Haivey, 


1. 


Sep. 17, 1892 








Sylvester, 


Memphis. 


May 30, 189") 








Bertha, 


St Louis. 


Jan. 28, 1899 




Dec. 7, 


VII 


Fannie Eichelberger, 
Baker Evans, 


S. St. Louis, Mo. 






1887. 




De Soto, Mo. 


Jan 22, 1^57 






VIII 


Howard A,, 


(( 


Dec 15,1888 








Paulena, 


i( 


Apr. 3, 1891 








Lottie J., 


(t 


Aug 2, 1893 








Maud E , 


i( 


June 6, 1896 




April 28, 


VII 


Ed. Eichelberger, ) 
Rose Campbell, ) 


S. St Louis, Mo. 






1899. 




Williamsville, Mo. 








VIII 


Blanche, 


De Soto, Mo, 


July 2, 1900 




Feb. 23, 


VII 


Albert Eichelberger, ) 


» 






1891. 




Jr. [ 












Fannie Jackson, ) 


Louisville, Ky. 


Oct. 22, 1872 






VIII 


Edward, 


Evansville, Ind. 


Mar 14, 1892 








Bessie, 


De Soto, Mo. 


Nov. 21,1893 








Raymond, 


ti 


Apr 28, 1896 








Dewey, 


i< 


Dec 21, 1898 





12 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Sept. 22, 
1898. 



VII 



Feb. 28, 
1900 



VII 



unknown 



IV 

V 



Is;ibel Eichelberger, } 
Samuel Menefle, f 



Maud Eichelberger, ) 
Martin McDermott, ) 



V 
VI 



1811 



V 
VI 



Mar'iu Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Welsh, J 

Catherine, 

Lydia, 

John, 

William, 

George, 

Samuel, 

Marv, 

Ellen, 

Charles, 

Jacob, 



John Eichelberger, ) 

Mary f 

Frederick William, 
James Francis, 
Eliza, 

John Myers, 
Emanuel W., 
Charles Wesley, 



George Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Schriener, ) 

Martin, 

Elizabeth, 

George, 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



Piedmont, W. Va. 



Baltimore, Md , and 
York Co., Pa. 



tc 
<c 
t( 
• t 
(( 

C( 

t( 
« 



Anne Arundel Co 
Md. 



1766 
1787 
1791 
1789 



II 



Lancaster, Pa. 



1791 
Unknown. 



Unknown. 



1815 
Unknown. 



II 
II 
II 



1824 
Unknown. 



1789 

Feb.'triSia 
1814 ' • 
1816 ' 



1825 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



13 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Oct. 28, 


VI 


Martin Eictielberger, ) 
Isabella G. Johnson, ] 




Feb. 1, 1813 


Sept. 20,1885 


1840. 






Mar. 23, 1832 




Single 


VII 


Elizabeth, 






Deceased 


(« 




Ellen, 
Irene, 




July 28, 1845 


ti 


Single. 




Julia, 
Edwin, 


near Lewistown. 


May 10. 1848 
June 10, 1851 




Single. 




Agnes, M. D., 


Sioux City, Iowa. 


May 30, 1864 




Oct. 18, 


VII 


Irene Eidhelberger, ) 
Alvah L. Howes, | 


Peoria, 111. 


July 28, 1845 




1865 




Sioux City, Iowa. 








VIII 


Isabella Forbes, (Geo. 
A. Frey.) 




Jan. 26, 1872 




Single. 




Louis Alvah, 




Dec. 13, 1873 




Dec. 14, 


VII 


• 

Edwin Eichelberger, ) 
Ida C. Elliott, J 


Lewistown, 111. 


June 10,1857 




1872. 












VIII 


Winogene, 
Edith, 
Frank, 
Helen, 




1875 
1879 
1881 
1888 






VIII 


WinogeneEichelberger ) 
Will Palmer, [ 


Sioux City, Iowa. 


1875 
















VIII 


Edith Eichelberger, ) 
Charles Tacey, j 


Havana, 111. 


1879 












. 



14 



EICHELBERQER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death 


1832. 


VI 


Elizabeth Eichelberger, | 
Adam F. Hambright, j 


Lancaster, Pa. 


1814 


1886 














VII 


Ch^irles R., 

Mary, ( Dr. Fahne?t()ck) 

George M.P H D 

Emra'i A , (Rev Wil- 
liam Roop.) 

Matilda A., 

John J., 

William F, 

Alice, (Jerome Vender- 
smith ) 

Sallie, (Henry Hoff- 
man.) 

Harry A. 


Omaha, Neb. 
Walhalla, S. C. 

Chicago, 111 
Manchester, Md. 

Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
Oakland, Cal. 
Laacaster, Pa. 

« 

New York City. 








VI 


George Eichelberger, }_ 
(Unknown,) ) 




1816 

• 


1875 




VII 


Marcus, 






Deceased. 


Single. 




Mary, 






11 


Single. 




Margaret, 

End of line of Martin, 

son of George and 

Lydia. 




1768 


(1 










IV 


Geo. Eichelberger, 4th ) 

son of Geo and Lydia >■ 

Eleanor H. Uling, ) 








unknown 


V 


John, 








(> 


IV 

V 


William, 

MarvEichelberger,dau. ) 

of George and Lydia, J- 
Adam Welsh, ) 

Jacob, 

Lydia, 

Thomas, 

Eliza, 

William, 

Washington, 

John Wesley. 




1 


• 




IV 


Lydia S Eichelberger, \ 

2d dau.Geo and Lydia [ 

William Dull, ) 


York, Pa. 








V 


Henry, 

George, 

Lydia, (Thos. Bethgal.) 


tt 
II 
II 







EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECOED. 



15 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1767. 


III 


Frederick C.Eichelberg ) 

er, 2d son, Martin, Sr. >• 

Eva Myers, ) 


Near York, Pa. 


Nov. 16, 1744 


Oct. 18, 1824 




IV 


John, 

Thomas, 

Daniel, 

George, 

Bernard, 

William, 

Charles, 

Sarah, 




1767 
1770 
1768 
1800 
Apr. 20, 1779 
1798 






IV 


John Eichelberger,) 
Mary Eichelbergerj 


Baltimore, Md., 


1767 
















V 


Harriet, (Mr. Musser.) 


(( 






Single. 




Catherine, 


It 






Single. 




Mary, 


« 








IV 


Thomas Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Welsh, [ 


Near York, Pa. 


1770 








it 


Jan. 13, 1779 


June 21, 1819 




V 


Samuel, 


(( 


July 21, 1799 




1797 


IV 


Daniel Eichelberger, ) 
Susannah Barnitz, f 


York, Pa. 


1775 


Aug. 15, 1811 






a 


Nov. 17, 1775 


Jan. 29, 1850 




V 


Eve Catherine, 
Juliana, 




Jan. 17, 1798 
Nov. 17, 1799 




Single. 




Henrietta, 
Barnitz, 




Feb 13, 1802 
Jan. 20, 1804 


Mar. 7, 1885 




V 


Eve Catherine Eichel- 1 

berger, V 

William Nes, ) 


York, Pa. 
11 




• 


Single. 


VI 


William Frederick, 








(1 




Jefferson, 
Alexander Hamilton, 










VI 


Alex. Hamilton Nes, ) 
Eliza Brillinger, J 


York, Pa. 


















VII 


William Jefferson, 
Leah Kate, 










VII 


William Jefferson Nes, ) 
Julietta Sullivan, j 


York, Pa. 


















VIII 


William Hamilton, 









16 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


. Death. 




VII 


Leah K. Nes, } 
Wm. C. Warner, ) 


Titusville, Pa. 








VIII 


Mary Cadwallader, 
Alexander Nes, 
William, 
Frederick, 
Edith, 








1821. 


V 


Juliana Eichelberger,\ 


York, Pa. 


Nov. 7. 1799 








Charles Kurtz, ) 




Aug. 30,1791 


1828 




VI 


William H., 








1851. 




Katherine S., (Henry 
G. Sidle,) 


Minneapolis, Minn. 


Mar. 8, 1825 




Sept. 22, 


V 


Juliana Eichelberger,|^ 








1833 




Jacob Emrait, j 


Baltimore, Md. 


1787 


1865 


Single. 


VI 


Jac'b, Jr., 


York, Pa., and Min- 


Aug 20,1834 


Mar. 1, 1881 






Sophia, 


. neapolis, Minn. 


Apr. 1.1, 1841 








Henrietta, 




Dec 2, 1838 


Nov., 1849 




VI 


William H. Kurtz,? 
Mary Baugher. > 




















VII 


Charles F., (1st wife, 

, 2d wife, 

Deliah Gemmill.) 

Julia B., (King Got 

wait,) 








Aug. 27, 


VI 


Sophia Emmit, "> 








1868. 


VII 


H. W. Wagner,) 
Has issue. 


Minneapolis,Minn. 








V 


Barnitz Eichelbercer,|^ 


York, Pa. 


Jan. 20, 1804 


Mar 18, 1848 






Henrietta Danner, ) 


it 


Apr 16, 1813 


Apr. 16, 1838 




VI 


Edward Charles, 


it 


July 9, 18« 








Frederick Augustus, 


t< 


Jan. 22, 1834 




Single. 




Martin D. 




Mar 2i, 1836 


Nov. 10,1866 


Mar. 10, 


VI 


Edw. C. Eichelberger, J 


York, Pa. 


July 9, 1832 


Nov. 13 1873 


18G4. 




Georgiana Rebecca >• 
Earle Codwise, ) 


Norfolk, Va. 






Single. 


VII 


George Barnitz, 


York, Pa. 


Dec. 21, 1864 




Sept.lHOO 




Henrietta Virginia, (S. 
H. Daly.) 


t( 


Mar. 26, 1865 




Single. 




Edward Codwise, 


ti 


Jan. 28, 1867 








Charles Martin, 


>i 


June 10, 1870 




Single. 




Susau Earle, 


•' 


Aug. 3, 1872 





•EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



17 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Deatli. 



Apr. 26, 
1893.;.: 



June lO, 

11862. 

Single. 



VII 

VIII 



Nov. 21. 
1895. 



VI 



VII 



Chas M. Eichelberger,) 
Maria ElizabethWitmer) 
Maria Earle, 
Charles Witmer, 



York, Pa. 

Niagara Falls. N, Y. 

York, Pa. 



Fred, Augustus Eichel- 

berger, 
Cath. Victoria Upp, 

Katie, 

Eliza Ann, 

Henry Martin, 



VII Henry M. Eichelberger >^ 
Laura Wolf, ) 

VIII George Wolf, 
Catherine Upp, 



1830. 



Single. 



Single. 



23 



York, Pa. 



June 10, 1870 

Junel4,lf^94 
Mar. 15, 1898 



Mount Wolf, York 
Co., Pa. 



V 
VI 

IV 
V 



George Eichelberger, 
Swope, 



Abraham, 



Barnet or Barnitz 'j 

Eichelberger, [• 

Elizabeth Ebert, ) 

Philip, 

Sarah, (Abr'ra Baum- 
gardner.) 

Henry, 

Daniel, 

Frederick, 

Sufanna, 



York, Pa., and Baiti 
more, Md. 



Jan. 22, 1834 



May 22, 1863 
May 22, 1869 
July 5, 1867 



Mar. 3, 1897 
May 29, 1899 



Oct. 24, 1881 
July 14, 1871 



York, Pa. 

Ottawa, 111. 

York, Pa. 
Ottawa. 111. 

York, Pa. 



1800 



Apr. 20, 1779 



June 4, 1806 
May 13, 1809 

Mar. 8, 1808 
Aug 14, 1811 
Feb. 22, 1813 
July 25, 1815 



1823 



Oct. 23, 1814 



Sept. 23, 1786 Mar. 12, 1858 



Dec. 4, 1877 
July 30, 1895 

Feb. 8, 1896 
Mar. 16, 1891 
Apr. 16, 1879 
Jan. 22, 1888 



18 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY EECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Dealh. 



V 
VI 



VI 



VI 



Single. 



Jan 25, 

1875. 



Henry Eichelberger, } 
Harriet Lowe, f 

Emily A., (Ist, Wash- 
ington Lloyd ; 2d 
William Presbry.) 

Harriet Elizabeth, (Jno. 
Gilman.) 

Daniel F., 

MaryJ., (Albert Honey) 

Henrietta (Frank Hack- 
ney.) 

George, twin or Hen- 
rietta. 

Rosanna, (Amon Love 

joy-) 



Daniel Eichelberger, ) 
Mary H. Hosford, ) 

Mary Elizabeth, 

Sarah A., 

Fannie M., 

Georgiaua May, 



Frederick Eichelberger ) 
Eliza Rumple, ) 

Ellen A., (Wm. Lewis 

John H , 

Susan E (Wm.Trumbo) 

Frances I., (Charles 
Poundstone.) 

William Bernard, 

Louisa M., (William 
Milligan.) 

Frederick M. 

Charles Philip, 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 



Daniel F. Eichelberger, 
Mary Smith, 

Roy Sydney, 

Henry, 

Evelyn, 



George Eichelberger, ) 

(I ) Emma McPherson, V 

(II.) Mrs A. Roberts, ) 

Ralph, (son 1st wife) 

Edna, (dau 1st wife.) 



John H. Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Miller, ) 

Fred Miller, 

Pearl R., 



Baltimore, Md 
Winchester, Ohio. 



Ottawa, 111. 

Ravenswood, 111. 

Tacoma, Wash. 

Chicago, 111. 



Puyallup, Wash. 



Thetford, Vt 

Ottawa, 111. 
(( 

It 



Ottawa, 111. 

Gran dRapidsTwp. Ill 

Harvey, 111. 

Marseilles, 111. 

St. Louis, Mo. 

Ottawa, 111. 



Grand Ridge, 111. 



Ravenswood, 111. 



Mar. 8, 1808, Feb. 8, 1896 
July 18, l'^20iOct. 9, 1875 
Feb 26. 1841 Jan. 15, 1896 



Sep. 20, 1842 



Nov. 5, 1844 
Dec. 20, 1846 
July 19, 1850 



Tacoma, Wash. 



Harvey, 111, 



July 7, 1889 



Aug. 15, 1811 
Feb. 18,1824 
Aug. 17, 1846 
Aug 24, 1851 
Nov. 4, 1858 
Mar. 7, 1861 



Feb. 22, 1813 
Dec 4 1821 
July 8, 1846 
Jan. 18 1848 
June 27, 1849 
July 19, 1851 

July 21, 1856 
Apr. 20, 1858 

May 4, 1860 
May 23, 1862 



Nov. 5, 1844 

Dec 25, 1886 
Apr. 8, 1878 
Aug. 1, 1879 



July 19, 1850 



Jan. 24, 1877 
June 12, 1879 



Jan. 18, 1848 
June 15, 1856 
Dec. 18, 1875 
Sept. 5, 1878 



Mar. 16, 1891 



Apr. 16, 1879 



•Jan. 20, 1886 

Jan 14, 1887 
Aug. 1, 1879 

July 7, 1889 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



19 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Sept. 5, 
1881. 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

IV 
V 



Nov. 5, 
1837. 



Single. 
Single 



Sept. ''23, 
1860. 



V 
VI 



VI 
VII 



Apr 10, 
1864. 



VI 
VII 



Jan. 25, 

1875. 



VI 



Wm B. Eichelberger, [ 
Ella Sesslar, ) 

Susie Etbelyne. 

Charles Clifford, 



Fred'k M Eicbelbcrger | 
Alice Butterfield, ) 

Leola E , 

M Marie, 



William Eichelberger,|^ 
Margaret A Gustweed,) 

Frederick Augustus, 

George, 

Maria, 

Eienora, 



Fred'k A. Eichelberger ) 
Caroliue Day, ) 

Jane Elizabeth, 
Maria Eleuora, 
Catherine Amanda, 
Charles Augustus, 
Emma Margaret, 
Alice Irene, 
William Kurtz, 



Jane E Eichelberger, 
Danitl Smy&er, 

William, 

Luther, 

Herbert, 

Harry, 

Edward, 

Jennie, 



Maria E Eichelberger, 
George P. Spangle, 

Emma, 

(Mayton, 

Eienora, 



Alice I. Eichelberger, 
Edward F. Wiest, 



George Eichelberger,) 
No issue. 



Ottawa, 111. 



(I 



Grand Ridge, 111. 



near York, Pa. 



York, Pa. 



York Co , Pa. 



July 21, 1856 
Jan. 23, 1858 
Nov.21, 1882 
Oct. 29, 1891 



May 4, 1860 
Oct 20. 1807 
Sept. 5, 1890 
Jan. 8, 1898 



Feb. 18, 1810 
1812 
1815 
1820 



Feb. 18, 1810 
Mar. 3, 1831 
Mar. 6, 1839 
Sept, 7, 1841 
Mar. 16, 1848 
Mar 16, 1845 
•^ept 23, 1848 
Nov. 5, 1850 
Mar. 2, 1852 



Mar. 6, 1839 



Jan. 81,1898 
182- 



Died young. 



July 15, 1867 
Unknown. 



May 19, 1900 
May 17, 1847 
Sept 23, 1867 



Dec. 4, 1872 



20 



EICHELBEEGEE FAMILY KECORD, 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


Maria Eichelberger, | 
Peter Loucks, 1 


York, Pa. 








VI 


Caspar, 


i( 










Franklin, 


>( 




Apr., 1900 






Peter, 


iC 




1880 






Mary M. 


II 




1877 






Augustus, 


II 






1819. 


IV 


Charles Eichelberger,) 


York Pa. —Ohio. 


1788 


1847 


.■ 




Elizabeth Nace, > 




1801 


1868 




V 


Mary Elizabeth, 




1820 








Sarah Jane, 


York, Pa , Ohio and 


Mar. 23, 1822 








Amelia C, 


Maryland. 


1825 




Single 




Elizabeth M., 

Ohio George Walter, 


Edgerton, Ohio. 


1827 
1829 






V 


Mary E. Eichelberger,? 


Milford, now Hicks- 


1820 








Jackson Hootman, )" 


ville, Ohio. 


1819 


1897 




VI 


Benton, (Jeanette Bar- 
ney ; has issue.) 

George, (Miss Bier- 
bower; no issue.) 


Milford, Ohio. 






Single. 




Mary, 


II 






Sept. 2, 


V 


Sarah J. Eichelberger, ) 
Joseph H. Coder, ) 


Hector, Ind. 


Mar. 23, 1822 


Mar. 19, 1898 


1842. 




II 


Oct. 9. 1813 


Nov. 2, 1897 




VI 


Cornelius E., (Kather- 
ine Wisel ; no issue.) 


IC 


June 14, 1843 








Elizabeth A., (Emanuel 


Portland, Ind. 


184'. 








Hartzel ; has issue.) 












Lewis C, (Mary 


Hector, Ind. 


Feb. to, 1848 








Schneider; four sons) 








Single. 




Sarah Jane, 


ti 


Feb. 24, 1856 


Mar. 28, 1856 


a 




Adeline, 


II 


Apr 5, 1857 


Mar. 25,1862 


(( 




OhioG. W., 


i> 


Jan. 20, 1861 


May 24, 1861 


<i 




Laura A., 


if 


Mar 10,1862 


Jan. 21, 1873 


<( 




Ira J., 


11 


Jan. 25, 1851 


Nov.24, 1876 


Ci 




Mary T., 


11 


Aug. 30,1853 




1844 


V 
VI 


Amelia 0. Eichelberger^^ 
Daniel Beckley, j 
Alice, 


New Pittsburg, Ohio 


1825 


1852 




VI 


Alice Beckley, ) 
Rev. J. Zook, f 


Brecksvillle, Ohio. 
Madisonburg, Ohio. 






Single. 


VII 


Kathryne, 




1889 






V 


OhioG. W.Eichelberger ) 
Kate Miller, f 


Wooster, 0. — Idaho. 


1829 


















No issue. 









EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



21 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Single, 
unknown 

1764. 
Single. 



May 10, 

1781. 
Single. 



July 30, 
1801. 



Jan. 8, 
1828. . 



June 5, 
1849. 



IV 
V 



III 
IV 

III 
III 



IV 

V 

V 
VI 



VI 
VII 



OhioG. W.Eichelberger 
Arneal Spaugler, 
No Issue. 



Sarah Eichelberger, ) 
Jacob Lutman, ) 

Levi, 

Charlotte, (Thos. Jami- 
scii.) 

Aaron, 

Jane, (Geo. Carmen.) 



Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Susan Beard, ) 

Peter, 



Bernard Eichelberger, 



Martin Eichelberger ,Jr 
Elizabeth Welsh, 

Jesse, 

Eliza, 

Maria, 

Juliana, 

Otho Martin, 

Louis, 

William Otterbein, 

Elenora Sophia, 

Emelia Augusta, 

Otho Welsh, 

Henrietta Matilda, 



Eliza Eichelberger, ) 
Nicholas Greenbury- 
Ridgely. ) 

Eliza Eichelberger, 



Eliza E. Ridgely, } 
John Ridgely, ) 

Eliza, 

Charles, 

Pruefeciila. 

Nicholas Greenbury, 

Julia Maria, 



Eliza Ridgely, ) 

John Campbell White, j 

Henry, 

John Ric5gely, 

Julian LeRoy, 



Ohio ; Pocatello, Ida- 
ho, Edgerton, O. 



York, Pa. 



Baltimore and Eeis- 
terstowu, Md. 



York, Pa. and Balti- 
more, Md. 

York, Pa. and Balti- 
more, Md. 



It 

(C 

tt 
« 
t( 
<( 
(( 
(( 



Baltimore, Md. 



Hampton, Md. 



Oct, 29, 1899 



(I 

ti 



Baltimore, Md. 



Oct., 1743 



1746 



Jan. 7, 1759 

1762 
Oct. 10, 1782 
Dec. 6, 1783 
Nov. 6, 1785 

1787 
Apr. 8, 1789 
Oct. 9, 1791 
May 11. 1793 
Apr. 22, 178.^ 
Aug.lO, 1797 
Oct 17, 1799 
Sept 12,1801 



Dec 6, 1783 



Feb. 10, 1803 



Feb. 10, 1803 
Jan. 7, 1790 
Oct 28, 1 828 
Mar 22, 1830 
Dec. 21,1831 
June 17, 1834 
Mar. 16, 1841 



Oct 28, 1828 

Mar. 29, 1850 
Mar. 16, 1852 
Mar. 26. 1 53 



Oct., 1832 
Died in inf y 

1781 



Oct. 9, 1841 
Feb. 7, 1855 



Feb. 28, 1853 
Sept.20, 1793 
Nov., 1886 
Dec. 30, 1860 
Dec. 28, 1880 

1812 

Jan. 30, 1879 

June 27,1876 



Feb. 10, 1803 



Dec. 20, 1867 
July 16, 1867 



Jan 19, 1833 
Mar. 12, 1835 
Aug, 4, 1844 



Mar 13,1894 
Feb. 6, 1853 

May 7, 1852 



22 



EICHELBERGEB FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Nov. 21, 
1865 



Dec 3, 

1879. 



March 29, 
1894. 



VI 



VII 



VII 



VIII 



VII 



Feb 27, 
1851. 



Single. 



VII 

VIII 



VI 



VII 



Sept. 11, 
1873. 



Oct 19, 

lb81. 



VII 

VIII 



Mrs. Eliza Ridgely 

White, 
Thos.H. Buckler, MD. 
William Hepburu, 



Henry White, 

Margaret Stuyvesant 
Rutherford, 
Margaret Muriel, 
John Campbell, 



.fulian LeRoy White, 
Sophia Elizabeth Bey- 
lard, 
No issue. 



Baltimore, Md. 






London, England. 



Baltimore, Md. 
Normandy, France 



William H 

Georgiana G. Waldi 
Lucy Ridgely, 
Victor Ridgely, 



Buckler, ) 
on, J 



Close of Eliza Ridj^ely'a 
line. 



Charles Ridgely, 
ixlargaret Sophia How- 
ard, 

John, 

Charles, 

Howard, 

Otho Eichelberger, 

Eliza, 

.luliana E. H., 

Edgar, 

Margrelta Sophia, 



John Ridnely, ) 

Helen West Stewart, ) 

Leonice Josephine, 

Margaret Howard, 

Helen, 

Charles, 

John Stewart, 

John, 

David Stewart, 

Julian White, 



VII 



floward Ridgely, 
Helen Morris Tucker 
No issue. 



J 



Baltimore, Md. 



it 
« 



Baltimore, Md. 



Baltimore, Md , 



Baltimore, Md. 



It 



Maryland. 



Feb. 1, 1867 

t 

Mar. 29, 1850 



Oct 12, 1880 
Mar. 7, 1884 



Mar. 26, 1853 



Dec. 22, 1851 
July 19, 1858 
Jan. 7, 1855 
Jan. 30, 1856 
May 29. ia58 
May 30, 1862 
Oct. 11, 1860 
May 2, 1869 



Dec. 22,1851 



June 25. 
Jan. 2. 
Julv 27, 
Sept. 20. 
May 13. 
Sept. 28, 
Apr. 12, 
Feb. 9, 



1874 
1876 
1877 
1876 
1881 
1882 
1884 
1887 



Jan. 7, 1855 



Deceased. 



May 10, 1873 



Aug. 13, 1864 



Oct. 14, 1882 
Sept. 7, 188i 



Sept.25, 1900 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



23 



Marriage 



Geu 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Feb. 6, 

1878. 



VII 

VIII 



Oct. 1, 

1884. 



1810. 



VII 

VIII 

IV 
V 



a 



VI 



VI 



VII 



III 

IV 



Single 



Single. 



Otho E. Ridgely, 
Benrietta S. Thomas, 

Ellen Frances, 

Margretta S. H. 

Charles Ridgely How- 
ard, 

Otho Eichelberger, 

Alice Garrett, 



Juliana E. H. Ridgely, ) 
John Southgatu Yeaton ) 

Margaret Howard, 

Mary Fracces, 



Maria Eichelberger, 
John Clemm, Sergeant 
U. 8. A., 

Elizabeth, 

Johanna, 

Johanna Clemm, 
Daniel B.RidgeIv,Com- 
modore U. S. N. 
Nicholas G., 



Nicholas G. Ridgely, ) 
M. D., \ 

Ida Deshon, ) 

Martin Eichelberger. 

Johanna, 

Henrietta, 

Elizabeth, 

Mary, 

Daniel, 



Susannah Eichelberger) 
Daniel Barnitz, j 

Jacob, (Mary Etzler.) 
George, (MissMcClin 

tuck,) 
Deborah, 
Wilhelm. 
Elizabeth, (Charles 

YouRg.) 
Charles, (Rebecca 

Swope.) 
Daniel, (1st Miss Judy, 
2d Elizabeth Forney) 
Louvina, 
Susannah, 
Helen Catherine, (Geo 

Himes.) 
John, (1st Elizabeth 

Scholl, 2d Maria 

Bently.) 



Maryland. 



It 



Maryland. 



(t 
t< 



Baltimore, Md. 



Baltimore, Md. 



Baltimore, Md. 



York, Pa. 
York Co., Pa, 



(I 
t( 



it 



Dec. 25, 1878 



July 1, 1885 



Nov. 6, 1785 



1811 
1813 

1813 



Died in inf'y 



July 4, 1864 
Sept. 14, 1814 

1831 



1843 



Feb. 6, 1756 

1755 

Apr. 6, 1777 

Dec. 22, 1778 

Aug. 4, 1780 
Jan. 29, 1781 
Jan. 25, 1803 

Feb. 1, 1784 

Oct. 28, 1785 

Dec. 23, 1787 
Dec. 21, 1789 
July 15, 1792 

Apr. 7, 1795 



Deceased. 

Feb. 3, 1806 
Dec. 18, 1827 

1841 

Nov. 4, 1781 



Sept. 1, 1799 



24 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAME3. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1768. 


IV 
III 


Michael, (Eliza Eichel- 
berger.) 

Mary Eichelherger, ) 
William T. Coale, [ 
If issue, unknown. 


York Co., Pa. 
York Pa. and Md. 


Jan. 8, 1797 
1749 


Unknown. 



Line of John Frederick Eichelherger, 

Second Son of the Emigrant. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Biith. 


Death. 


Jan 4, 


II 


John Frederick Eich- ) 


Germ'y,York Co, Pa. 


Feb. 18, 1722 


1783 


1743 




elberger, j- 
Anna Maria Kintz ) 


and Maryland. 








III 


John Jacob, 


Fred'kCo., & Balti- 


Sept 23, 1743 


Apr. 14, 1803 






John Frederick, 


more, Md, 


1749 


18 -'3 


1781 


III 


John Frederick Eich- ) 

elberger, >• 

Marv Leonard, ) 


Near Martinsburg. 
Reading, Pa. 


1749 


1823 




IV 


John, 
Jacob, 
Peter, 
Henry, 
Mary Ann, 




Oct 13, 1783 
Mar. 9, 1795 
Mar. 3, 1787 
Apr. 30, 1789 
,\ug.'7, 1792 








Catherine, 


f 


Aug. 14,1798 






IV 


John Eichelherger, ) 
Kathurine Zimmerman ) 


Md. and Ohio. 


Oct. 13, 1783 


Dec. 26, 1847 






t( 


Nov. 12, 1778 


Apr. 20, 1871 




V 


Henrietta, 
Samuel, 
William, 
Daniel, 




Oct 30, 1804 
Dec. 20, 1806 
VI ay 19, 1809 
July 4, 1811 





EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



25 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



V 



VI 



2(3 mar- 
riage. 



Henry, 

Joseph, 

Susan. 

John Thomas, 



Henrietta Eichelber- 

ger, 
Benj. Davidson, 
Five Children. 
Orin, 



Jan, 3, 
1839. 



Single. 



Mrs. Henrietta E. Dav 
idson. 
Hall. 



VI Son, 



VI 



Jan. 1, 
1868. 



unknown VI 



VI 



1834. 
Single. 

Single. 

(( 

Single 
24 



Samuel Eichelberger, 
Eliza Dewer, 3d mar- 
riage, Mr Booher. 

George W., 

Luther, 

Wilson S., 
Samuel, 



Geo. W. Eichelberger, 
Mattie E Jack, 
No issue. 



Wilson S. Eichelberger, 
Ruby Eichelberger, 
No issue. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Maryland and Ohio 



Dayton, Ohio. 



July 9, 1814 

Sept. 9, 1816 

Apr. 20, 1822 

1818 



Oct. 30, 1804 



1825 



Unknown. 



Pindlay, Ohio. 



Oct. 30, 1804 Apr. 20, 1857 



Chicago, HI 

Natl. Military Home, 

Dayton, Ohio. 

Chicago, 111. 
Dayton, Ohio. 



Chicago, III. 



V 
VI 



Chicago, 111. 



Dec. 20, 1806 



Mar. 12, 1840 
Dec. 6, 1841 

Mar. 12, 1844 
Oct. 30, 1846 



Mar. 12, 1840 



May 27, 1873 
Feb. 2, 1890 



Mar. 12, 1844 



William Eichelberger, HMd and Dayton. O 

a„,„^, n ^ Germantown, Ohio. 

Dayton, Ohio 
Franklin, Ohio. 

Saint Wayne, Ohio. 
.( 

(( 
San Pedro, Cal. 



Sarah Conway, 
Sarah Bell, 
Francis Marion, 
Marietta, 
Adolphus, 
Elenora, 
William C, 
J. Edward, 



May 19, 1809 
Aug., 1815 

1835 

1886 

1839 

1842 

1849 

Aug., 1857 

Oct. 23, 1853 



Mar. 20, 1864 

Mar. 25, 1881 

1836 

1842 
1851 

Unknown. 



26 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



1861. 



1864. 



VI 
VII 



FrancisM.Eichelberger ) 
Elizabeth Jack, ) 

John Norvil, 

Eugenia, (Mr. Cnm ) 

P'ranklin, 



1874. 



June 3, 

1875. 



July 28, 

1836. 
Single. 



VI 

VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

V 

VI 



Feb. 14, 
1869. 



June 27, 

1872. 



VI 



March 7, 
1867. 



Residence. 



Birth 



Death. 



Elenora Eichelberger, ) 
Jacob S. Miller, \ 

Two children, 



Elenora Eichelberger 

Miller, 
T. E. Dawson, 
Issue. 



J. Edw. Eichelberger, ) 
Julia E. Miller, J 

Grey Dudley, 

Lida, 



Daniel Eichelberger, 
Eliza Ann Rouzer, 
Martin VanBuren, 
Thomas Benton, 
Daniel Arthur, 
, Isabella, 
Laura Rebecca, 
Jackson Rouzer, 



Thos. B. Eichelberger,) 
Eugenia E. Wildex, ) 
No issue. 



Dayton, Ohio. 

Texas. 
Chicago, 111. 



Dayton, Ohio. 



Indianapolis, 111. 



1836 

1862 
1864 
1866 



1849 
Unknown. 

1849 



Ohio, SanPedro, Cal. 
It 

San Pedro, Cal. 
Ft. Smith, Ark. 



Dayton, Ohio. 
« 

>( 

.« 

(I 

(I 

(> 

(I 



Oct. 23, 1853 

Jan. 14, 1877 
Oct. 20, 1887 



Unknown. 



1870 
Unknown. 



Unknown. 



Oct. 25, 1887 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 



July 4, 1811 
Nov.18, 1812 
Apr. 6, 1837 
Mar. 12, 1839 
May 30, 1851 
Jan. 31, 1841 
Mar. 6, 1843 
Nov. 18, 1845 



Mar. 12,1839 



June 2, 1853 
Sept.l7, 1895 



Danl. A. Eichelberger, ) 
Anna Neal Crum, J 

Fanny Lou, 

Lucy Belle, 

Frederick Otho, 



Isabella Eichelberger, ) 
Frederick Wm. Braun, ) 

Frederick, 

Bessie, 

Blanche, 



Dayton, Ohio, 



Apr. 3, 1846 



Aug. 1, 1897 



Dayton, Ohio. 



May 30, 1851 

June 30, 1874 
Oct. 30, 1880 
Aug. 3, 1883 



Jan. 31, 1841 
Aug. 23, 1827 



Mar. 7, 1899 



May 9, 1893 

Allthreedied 

while quite 

young. 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



27 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Jan. 8, 
1863. 



May 27, 
1899. 



VI 
VII 

VII 

VIII 



Jan. 8, 
1900. 



VII 



Laura R. Eichelberger, ) 
Henry Clay Coffenbury/ 
Leone Avon, 



Fanny Lou Eichclber- 

per, 
Her.ry H. Fritch, 
Daniel Frederick, 



Leone Avon Coffen- 

bury, 
Leslie Sever, 



Sept 1, 
1833 

Siugle. 



V 
VI 



May 26. 

1853. 



vi 

VII 

VI 

VII 



Single. 



Nov 14, 
1873. 



VII 

VIII 



Henry Eichelberger,) 
Sarah Rouzer, j" 

John Thomas, 

Charles Henry, 

Mary Jane, 

Wesley, 

Washington, 



John T. Eichelberger, 
Elizabeth Drayer, (1st 
wife ) 

Kate, 

Thomas Oliver, 



John T. Eichelberger, 

Mary Debirah Duncan 

(3d wife.) 

Robert Dudley, 

Harry Duncan, 

Laura Mildred, 

l-harles Carroll, 



Kate Eichelberger. ) 
M. D. Wood, [ 

Bernicc Elizabeth, 
Jessie Edna, 
Oliver Amsburg, 
Bessie Evelyn, 
Charles Frederick, 



Dayton, Ohio. 



Dayton, Ohio. 



Middletown, Ohio. 
Springfield, Ohio. 

Dayton, Ohio 
Xenia. Ohio 

Miamisburg, Ohio. 



Dayton, Ohio. 
Miamisburg, Ohio. 



Dayton, Oiiio. 
Piqua, Ohio. 



Denver, Colorado 



Dunkirk, Indiana. 



Mar. 6, 1843 
July 25, 1^84 
July 24, 1879 



July 24, 1879 



Aug 16, 1900 



July 24, 1879 



July 9, 1814 
Mar 23, 1814 
May 23, 1833 
Jan. 3, 1836 
Jan. 10, 1839 
Sept 9, 1842 
Oct 26, 1847 



May 23, 1833 



Nov 24,1854 
May 7, 1^56 



May 23, 1833 



1865 
■^ept, 31,1866 
July, r-69 

1870 



Nov. 24,1854 



Dec. 6, 1893 

May 5, 1851 
Mar. 15, 1839 

Apr. 28, 1848 



Jaa. 4. 1890 
Feb 10, 1857 



Nov •28,1873 
Sept. 3, 1875 
Feb 2, 1878 
Jan. 25, 1887 
Dec. 9, 1881* 



Jan. 3, 1876 



28 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD, 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



VII 

VIII 



unknown 



VII 



VII 



VIII 



1897 



VII 



VIII 



Dec. 16, 

1892. 



VIII 



IX 



Jan. 2, 
1866. 



June 3, 
1891. 



VI 
VII 

VII 



Thomas Oliver Eich- 

elberger, 
Sarah E. lloutzong. 

Charles Marcus, 

Edna, 

Kirk Wood. 



Robert Dudley Eichel- 

berger, 
Bessie Lucas, 



Harry Duncan Eichcl- 

berger, 
Lillian Morris, 

Helen, 

Mary, 

Thomas. 

Harry, 



Charles C. Eichelber- 

ger. 
Alma May Hunt, 
Infant Son, 



Bernice Elizabeth 
Wood, 

Florence Fees, 
Amber Ladona, 
Marcus Wood, 
Thomas Clifford, 



Wesley Eichelb<^rger, ) 
Lsura Belle Day, j" 

Harry Wilbur, 



Harry Wilbur Eichcl- ) 

berger, > 

Ida Maud Palmer, ) 



Middletown, O. 

Bradford, Ohio. 
Middletown, O. 



San Francisco, Cal. 
Kansas City, Mo. 

Richmond, Va. 

Kansas City, Mo. 

Richmond, Va, 

<( 

iC 

ti 



Denver, Col. 



Dunkirk, Ind. 



tc 
(( 



Piqua, Ohio. 



Piqua, Ohio. 



May 7, 1856 

Apr. 23, 1857 
Jan. 18, 1879 
Apr. 5, 1880 
Oct. 23, 1881 



1865 



Aug. 21,1866 



1870 



Apr. 30, 1899 



Nov. 10, 1893 
Sept 29. 1895 
Sept. 28,1897 



Sept. 9, 1842 
Mar. 22, 1869 

Mar. 22,1869 



Oct 29, 1899 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



29 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Jan. 1843. 


V 


Joseph Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Eliza Maley, ) 


Maryland and Ur- 


Sept. 9, 1876 








bana, Ohio. 


Mar. 4, 1821 






VI 


George M. , 


Ohio. 


Dec. 16. 1843 








Sylvester, 


(i 


1846 








William, 


i< 


1851 








J. Frank, 


•( 


1856 








Isabelle, 


II 


Feb. 22, 1853 




Single. 




Robert A., (Artist.) 
Kate, 


Munich— N. Y. City. 


1864 


1891 
Died young. 


Oct. 1872. 


VI 


Geo. M. Eichelberger, ) 
Emma Ping, ) 


Urbana, Ohio. 


Dec. 16, 1843 


, 






Balto.Md.,Urbana,0 


Mar. 21, 1851 






VII 


Gertrude M , 
Susan P , 
George H., 
Frederick B., 
Frank, 
Robert L., 


Urbana, Ohio, 
li 

ti 

tt 

tt 

tt 


Jan. 14, 1874 
Oct. 8, 1875 
Jan. 24, 1877 
July 8, 1880 
Jan. 5, 1885 
Mar. 9, 1886 


1883 


1873. 


VI 


Wm. A. Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Jones, j 




1851 


1886 






Springfield, Ohio. 


1849 






VII 


Jeanette, 


" 


Sept., 1874 




Single 




Isabelle, 


II 


1876 








Frances, 


It 


1879 




tt 




Walter, 


It 


1881 






VI 


Sylvester Eichelberger ) 
Entma Straw, ) 


Urbana, Ohio. 


1846 


1876 






Carey, Ohio. 










No issue. 










VI 


J. Frank Eichelberger, ) 
Mrs. Sarah Mumma, f 


Urbana, Ohio. 


1856 


1893 






II 










No issue. 








1882 


VI 


Isabelle Eichelberger, ) 
Edgar M. Ward, f 


Urbana, Ohio. 


Feb. 22, 1853 








New York City. 










Edgar S., 


Paris, France, and 


Feb., 1887 








* 


New York City. 






1895. 


VII 


Jeanette Eichelberger,)^ 
Edwin M. S. Houston,)" 


Urbana, Ohio. 


Feb., 1874 
1872 




■• 


VIII 


Oella, 




1897 




1899. 


VII 


Frances Eichelberger,^ 
Roger Staley, ) 




1879 





30 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1846. 


V 
VI 


John Eichelberger, Jr., | 
Julia Sweatly, J 
Addie, 


Germantown, Ohio. 


1818 


May 8, 1853 




VI 

VII 


Addie Eiciielberger, > 

Trpl 1 n rl \ 


Germantown, Ohio, 
it 


1848 






Issue— 8 children. 




Jan. ai, 
1841. 

Single. 

It 

4( 


V 
VI 


Susan Eichelberger, > 
Jacob Hoff Boyer, | 

Edward C, 

Addie, 

Francis, 

Anna-Belle, 

SalJie, 


Maryland and Day- 
ton, Ohio. 

Germantown, Ohio. 

Dayton, Ohio. 
.1 


Apr. 20, 1822 

.June 3, 1844 
Nov.21, 1841 
May 21, 1846 
Nov.27, 1849 
Aug 16,1852 


Jan. 31, 1898 
June 11,1852 

June 9, 1851 




VI 


Edward C Boyer, ^ 
Has issue. 


Dayton, Ohio. 


June 3, 1844 






VII 










VI 
VII 


Addie Boyer, > 
Lewis Taylor,)" 
Has issue. 


Germantown, Ohio. 


Nov.21, 1841 




1823. 


V 
VI 


Henrietta Eichelberger 
Benjamin Davidson, 

Orin, 

Four others. 


Maryland. 

• 

Dayton, Ohio. 


Oct. 30, 1804 


Apr 20, 1857 
1835 


1838. 


V 
VI 


Henrietta Eichelberger ) 
Davidson, y 
Mr. Hall, ) 
One son. 


Findlay, Ohio. 








IV 
V 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 


Maryland. 
(I 


Mar. 9, 1785 
ISliJ 






John, 
William, 
Jacob, 
Leonard, 




1840. 
Single 


V 
VI 


John Eichelberger, ) 
Christiana B. Winters, J 

Frank W., 

Thomas W., 

Laura B., 

William Q , 

Charles S., 


Md., Bloomfield, la. 
Dayton, Ohio. 


1812 

1841 
1843 
1846 

1848 
1858 


1887 
1884 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



31 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



VI 
VII 

VI 

VI 

VII 



Frank W. Eichelberger ) 
Ella A. Pratt, ) 

Mary, 



Thos. W. Eichelberger 
Ella B. Runack, 
No issue. 



Laura B. Eichelberger, 
Captain W. B. Brunton 
U. S. A. 

Mary, 

John, 



VI Wm. G. Eichelberger, 

Ellen Botts, 
VII Charles, 



Sept. 
1900 



VII 



Single. 



Single. 



V 
VI 

VI 

VII 

V 
VI 

V 
VI 

VI 
VII 



Charles Eichelberger, ) 
Clyde Sturdevant, ) 



Bloomfield, Iowa. 



Des Moines, Iowa. 
Chicago, 111. 



Davenport, Iowa. 



California. 
Nome, Alaska. 



Bloomfield, Iowa. 



William Eichelberger, 
(Unknown ) 
Anna Belle, 



Anna B. Eichelberger, 
Green, 



Has issue. 



Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Matilda Brewster, ) 

Son, 

Daughter, 



Leonard Eichelberger, 
Violet Kidder, 
Jennie, 



Jennie Eichelberger, 1 
James Preston, J 

James, 

Pearl, 

Leonard, 



Lawrenceburg, Ind. 



Arkansas. 



Md. and Bellbrook,0 



Davenport, Iowa. 






1869 
1843 

1846 



1848 
1879 

1877 



1815 



1820 



1823 



1856 

1887 
1889 
1893 



1878 
1879 

1878 



Deceased. 



1857 



32 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Single. 

1812. 

Single. 

1836. 
Single 



IV 
V 

IV 
V 



V 
VI 



Peter Eichelberger,> 
Deitrick, )" 



VI 
VII 

VI 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 

VII 

VI 

VII 



Mahala, 



Peter Eichelberger,) 
Sallie Kertchner, | 

Ari, 

Angustus, M. D., 

Maria, 

Peter, 



Ari Eichelberger, ) 
Sarah Smith, [ 

Augustus C., 

Sarah, 

Henry, 

Catherine, 

Indiana, 

Dorsey, 

Scott, 

Wesley, 

Elizabeth, 

Barbara, 



Benry Eichelberger,^ 
Louisa Snell, ) 

Has a family. 



Sarah Eichelberger, ^ 

I. James Shively, 

II. John McGonigle, 
III Wm.Chrissinger J 



Catherine Eichelberger"^ 
F. Marion Hale, j 



Indiana Eichelberger, >^ 
John Monias, ) 



Barbara Eichelberger,*^ 
William McCoy, ) 



Frederick Co., Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



(t 




1838 


It 




1842 


(I 




Sept. 8, 1841 


tt 




Jan. 23, 1843 


i( 




Aug.16, 1846 


Altoona, 


Pa. 


1848 


<{ 




Jan. 1, 1845 


it 




1854 


(1 




1850 



Elizabeth Eichelberger 

Franks, 

Issue. 



Miller City, Ohio. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Hagerstown, Md. 



Altoona, Pa. 



Mar. 13, 1787 



Mar. 13, 1787 

1813 

1816 

1820 

Oct. 22, 1818 



1813 



1842 



Jan. 23, 1843 



Apr. 16, 1846 



Apr. 19, 1875 
Unknown. 



Apr. 19, 1875 



1858 



Deceased. 



ti 
tt 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



33 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth, 


Death. 




V 


Peter Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Fockler, f 


Quincy, Pa. 


Oct. 22, 1818 


Aug. 26,1853 






Maryland. 








VI 


Lucius F., 




Apr. 7, 1844 




Single. 




Virginia, 


New York City. 


Jan. 17, 1850 








Peter, 


Urbana, Ohio. 


Dec. 16, 1846 






VI 


Lucius F. Eichelberger ) 
Fanny Reamer, ) 


New York City. 


Apr. 17, 1844 








Virginia. 






Single. 


VII 


Wilton, 


New York. 


1870 








Mary Catlierine, 


ti 


1872 




Dec. 13, 


VI 


Peter Eichelberger, ) 
Clara B. Shyrick, \ 


Urbana, Ohio. 


Dec. 16, 1846 




1873. 




Cavetown, Md. 








VII 


Mary E., 
Virginia A., 




Sept. 4, 1877 
Mar. 28,1879 


Oct. 20, 1881 






Otelia B., 




Dec. 7, 1880 


Mar. 10, 1884 






Frank J., 




Oct. 31, 1882 


Mar. 11,1884 






John S., 




Feb. 26, 1887 








Eobert L., 




Mar. 2, 1889 






IV 


Heiiry Eichelberger, ) 
Maria Louisa f 


Maryland and Zanes- 


Apr. 20, 1789 








ville, Ohio. 








V 


t)au. — name unknown. 








1816. 


IV 


Catherine Eichelberger ) 
Adam Kinkle, j 


Hagerstown, Md. 


Aug. 14, 1798 


Aug. 25, 1848 














V 


Ann Catherine, (W. K. 

Tice,) 
Eliza, 


(( 


Mar. 21, 1818 








<c 


Oct. 22, 1819 


Sept.22, 1822 






Mary Amanda, (R. 

Curies,) 
James Clinton, M. D. 


t» 


Aug. 21, 1821 




Name 




Baltimore, Md. 


Oct. 20, 1825 




unknown 












li 




Charles, 


Hagerstown, Md. 


Oct. 22, 1830 




July 25, 


IV 


Mary Ann Eichelberg- ) 


Hagerstown, Md. 


Aug. 7, 1792 


Sept.29, 1879 


1811. 




er, y 
Thomas Phillips, ) 








Single. 


V 


Mary Ann, 


near Hagerstown. 


June 18, 1812 


.July 18,1812 




Thomas, M. D., 


St. Thomas, Pa. 


Sept.25, 1813 


Nov.25, 1841 






William, Rev., 




Aug. 19, 1815 








Israel, 




Oct 3, 1817 




(( 




Mary, 
John, 
Samuel, 


near Hagerstown. 


Oct 23, 1819 
Feb. 17, 18>A 
June 14, 1823 


Apr. 7, 1820 



25 



34 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Apr. 1842 



Married. 
It 



V 
VI 



V 

VI 



Sept. 14, 
1848. 



V 
VI 



Oct. 12, 

1848. 
Single. 



V 
VI 



William Phillips, 
Martha Worthington 
Hook, 
Thomas, 
William, 
Mary Belle, (Geo. Ma- 

guire.) 
Minnie, (Mr. Rose.) 
Fannie, (Mr. Conrad.) 



Israel Phillips, ) 



Lambert, 



Louise, (J. A. Layton.) 
Thomas, 



John Phillips, ) 
Susan Clayton, ) 

Sallie, 

William D , 

Mary B., 

Clayton, (Helen 
Brotherton.) 

Myrtle, 

Grace E. A., 



M. 



Samuel Phillips, ) 
Rebecca Kay, ) 

George B. Kay, 

Samuel K., 

Pierre, 

Olivia, (Charles L 
Hamilton.) 

Samuel L., 

Mary A., 

William J., 

James K., 

Melville, (Gertrude F 
Tunk) 

Ida, (Edwin E. Hamil 
ton.) 



St. Josephs, Mo. 
Carroll Co., Md. 

Omaha, Nebraska. 



Kansas City, Mo. 



Lewisburg, Md. 
Montrose, Col. 



Waynesboro, Pa. 



<« 
It 



Philadelphia. 



It 
II 
II 
it 

II 
II 
It 



Aug. 19, 1815 



Oct. 3, 1817 



Jan. 23, 1892 



1900 



Dec. 29, 1845 



Deceased. 



Feb. 17, 1821 May 6, 1898 

June 19, 185o' July 4, 1864 
Dec. 13, 1854 May 25, 1855 
July 3, 1856 Jan. 6, 1863 
Feb. 5, 1859 

July 31, 1861 Feb. 6, 1863 
July 4, 1864 



June 14,1823 Sept. 1, 1892 
Oct. 12, 1823 Apr. 23, 1892 
Aug.ll, 1849 Aug., 1849 
Oct. 2, 1850 Aug. 23,1855 
Sept. 14, 1854: Jan. 14, 1855 
July 13, 1852 

Jan. 12, 1856 Mar. 8, 1889 
Feb. 3, 1858 Sept. 5, 1859 
Sept. 27,1859 Dec. 16, 1859 
Aug. 5, 1861 
Mar. 6, 1863 

June 13,1865 



Line of Capt. Adam Eichelberger, 

Eldest Son of Philip Frederick Eichelberger and His Second Wife, 

Magdalene. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1736 or 


I 


Philip Frederick Eich- 1 


Germany and Pa. 


Apr. 17, 1693 


Sept.18, 1776 


1738. 




elberger, >• 














(1 


1699 


1788 








II 


Adam, 


York Co., Pa. 


May 12, 1739 








.Tacob, 


Hanover, Pa. 


Sept. 26,1746 








Leonard, 


York Co. Pa , and Md 


Aug. 12,1750 








Lewis or Ludwig, 


York Co , Pa., and 
Adams Co. 


Dec. 1, 1752 




1761. 


II 


Adam Eichelberger, ) 
Captain, V 


Manheim Township, 
York Co., Pa. 


May 12, 1739 


Dec. 9, 1787 






Magdalene Bechtel, ) 




Dec. 6, 1743 


Dec. 30, 1821 




III 


Frederick, 




Aug.lO, 1763 








Michael, 


\ 


May 17, 1765 








Samuel, 


^ 


Jan 5, 1769 








Adam, Jr., 




Nov.26, 1771 








Elizabeth, 




Dec. 11, 1770 




Single. 




Susannah, 

Joseph, 

Salome, 




Aug.l4, 1778 
Ian. 15, 1781 
Aug.ll, 1783 


Sept.21, 1804 


Aug. 17, 


III 


f^rederck Eichelberger ) 
Anna Frena Motter, [ 


Frederick Co., Md. 


Aug.lO, 1763 


Aug. 7, 1838 


1784. 






Oct 14, 1763 


Nov. 17, 1815 




IV 


George, 




Mar. 8, 1790 




Single 




Catherine, 

Adam, 

Elizabeth, 

J««*^P^'i twins. 
Susan, 5 

Martin Luther, 

Mary or Maria, 




Nov. 3, 1798 
Feb. 17. 1792 
Nov.26, 1786 

Oct. 10, 1795 

Nov.17, 1797 
July 18, 1798 


1799 


(( 




Frederick, Jr , 
Lewis Frederick, 
Magdalene, 
Sophia, 




1801 
Aug. 15.1803 
July 24, 1785 
Oct. 23, 1800 


1804 




III 


Michael Eichelberger, ) 
Catherine Smyser, ) 


Manheim Township, 


May 17, 1765 


May 80, 1801 






York Co., Pa. 








IV 


Adam, 

Polly, 

Elizabeth, 

Michael, 

George, 




Oct. 24, 1791 
Jan., 1793 
Apr. 10, 1795 
Oct. 2. 1797 
Feb. 22, 1800 





35 



86 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Aug. 2, 


III 


Samuel Eichelberger, ) 
Catherine Smyser, ) 


York Co., Pa. 


Jan. 5, 1769 


Apr. 22, 1828 


1790. 




«( 


Feb. 27, 1772 


Feb. 6, 1842 




IV 


John Adam, 




Nov. 26, 1791 




Single. 




Magdalene, 




Dec. 14, 1793 


Mar 1, 1863 


li 




Maria Catherine, 




Nov. 19, 1796 


Feb. 25, 1798 


ii 




Lotiisa S., 
Samuel S., 




Dec. 5, 1798 
Mar. 6, 1801 


June 9, 1802 






Susannah, 




Oct 9, 1803 








Elizabeth, 




Jan. 8, 1806 








Jacob S., 




May 9, 1808 


■ 






Anna Catherine, 




Oct. 2, 1810 


% 






Lida, 




Jan. 20, 1814 




1794 


III 


Adam Eichelberger,Jr. ) 
Susannah Schmeizer, ) 


York Co. and Cum- 


Nov. 26, 1771 


Jan. 2, 1818 






berland Co., Pa. 




1810 


Single 


IV 


John Michael, 

George, 

Adam, 

Samuel, 

Henry, 

Elizabeth, 

Susannah, 

Sarah, 

Mary, 


Cumberland Co., Pa. 


Feb. 7, 1796 
Nov. 2, 1797 
Oct. 5, 1801 

1795 

1800 

1799 

1808 

1804 

1806 




1812. 


III 


Adam Eichelberger, Jr. 1 
Mrs. Mary Forney, J 


Cumberland Co , Pa 


Nov. 26, 1771 


Jan. 2, 1818 


2d wife. 












IV 


Joseph, 

Isabella, 

Hetty, 

Susai, 




■ 






III 


Elizabeth Eichelberger ) 
Michael Hoke, J 


York Co., Pa., moved 


Dec. 11, 1770 


Aug. 20, 1833 






to North Carolina. 


Aug. 14,1763 


Nov. 15, 1846 




IV 


George, 

Adam, (Susan Eichel- 
berger,) 




July 17, 1789 
Jan. 17, 1792 


June 13, 1851 


Single. 




John, 

Jacob, 

Michael, 

William, 

Sarah, 

Magdalene, 

Elizabeth, 




Dec. 30, 1796 
Nov. 12, 1799 
Oct. 19, 1808 
Feb. 21, 1812 
July 29, 1795 
July 29, 1802 
Dec 23,1804 


Aug. 12, 1822 


Aug. 18, 


III 


Joseph Eichelberger, [ 


Qreencastle. 


Jan. 15, 1781 


Apr 19,1811 


1803. 




Martha Dicks, ) 


Berlin, Pa. 


Dec. 14, 1784 


Dec. 7, 1827 




IV 


James M., 
Joanna, 
Job Dicks, 
Josephine, 




June 17, 1804 
Sept 13, 1806 
Oct. 23, 1808 
Apr. 5, 1810 





EICHELBEEGER FAMILY EECOED. 



37 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



1810. 



Apr. 11, 
1816. 



Ill 
IV 



Death. 



Salome Eichelberger, 
Henry Cramer, 

Joseph E., 

Charles, 



IV 



BinplCc 



Mar. 23, 
1848. 



June 15, 

1856. 
2d wife. 



V 
VI 



VI 



Line of 
"Owen's Creek" Freder- 
ick. 

George Eichelberger, ) 

Catherine Myers, ) 

Frederick, 
George William, 
Lewis Smith, 
Ann Elizabeth, 



Fred'k Eichelberger, ) 
Harriet Myers, f 

Virginia, m-*-c^ 
John, '' ^ 

Lilly, ■ •rs.ir-' tii^.vtt- 
Two infants. 



York, Co., Pa. 



■i^O^,tt\A 



May 13, 
1851. 



1866. 



VI 

VI 
VII 



VI 



George William Eich- 
elberger, 
Anna Maria Wirt, 
Blanche, 



George William Eich- 
elberger, 
Maria L Eichelberger, 
Anna Maria, 



Blanche Eichelberger, ) 
Samuel S Smeltzer, \ 

Anna, 

Wirt, 

Ella, 

John, 



Lewis Smith Eichel- 
berger, M. D. 
Sarah Wirt, 
William Wirt, 



Lewis Smith Eichel-) 
berger, M D. '> 
Elizabeth Richstine, ) 
No issue. 



Md., and Charles- 
town, W. Va. 
Wyoming Valley, Pa. 



W. Va. and Texas. 
Penna, and Texas. 



Aug. 11, 1783 

Jan. 19, 1813 
July, 1815 



West Virginia. 



Mar. 8, 1790 



1817 

Oct 27, 1819 

Sept. 28, 1824 

1823 



1817 



c4 vi,irti) 



Apr. 8, 1856 



1853 



Oct. 27, 1819 

Aug.30, 1823 
Dec. 15, 1850 



Charleston, W. Va. Oct. 27, 1819 
Dec. 31, 1836 



Capon Springs, W.Va 
Staunton, Va, 



Jeflferson Co., W. Va 
near Baltimore, Md, 
Hanover, Pa. 



CatonsTille, Md. 



Dec. 15, 1850 
May 21, 1850 
Sept. 8, 1878 
Apr. 15, 1881 
Sept. 19, 1883 
Nov. 25, 1885 



8ept.28, 1824 

Jan. 8, 1829 
Feb 14, 1852 



Sep .28, 1824 



Oct. 22, 1881 
Aug.22, 1854 

Oct. 22, 1881 
Oct, 13, 1895 



Nov. 12, 1891 
Dec. 7, 1882 
Dec. 2, 1882 



Sept. 4, 1864 
Apr. 6, 1864 



Sept. 4. 1884 



38 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


May 15, 


VI 


William Wirt Eichel- ) 


Balto., Washinj^ton 


Feb. 14, 1852 


Dec. 12, 1886 


1873 




berger, V 
Helen Wheatley, ) 


and New Enu'land. 
Baltimore, Md. 








VII 


Edith Wirt, 


n 


Vlay 7, 1874 


•Ian. 4, 1878 






Blanctie Greeawood, 


C( 


Dec. 6, 1875 


Feb. 13. 1892 






William Wirt, 


(t 


Jan. 25, 1878 








Arthur Ciry, 


i( 


Nov 15, 1879 


Oct. 18, 1887 






Paul Wheatley, 


i( 


Apr. 8, 1881 




1846 


V 


Ann E. Eichelberger, I 




1823 


1848 






Lawrence Myers, >" 


Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 




Unknown. 




VI 


Georgian na. 




1847 


1867 


Mar. 6, 


IV 


Adam Eichelberger,) 


Maryland and W.Va 


Feb. 17, 1792 


1834 


1821. 




Magdalene Hoke, | 


Md., W. Va. and 111 


1792 


1861 


Single. 


V 


James Milton, 


Virginia. 


1822 


1843 


4i 




Eliza Ann, 

John Adam Eoke, 

Harvey S., 




1824 
Mar. 21, 1831 
Apr. 6. 1834 


1826 


l( 




Jacob H., 
Savanah, 


tt 


1839 
1835 


1843 


Dec. 31, 


V 


John Adam Hobe Eich- ) 


Virginia, Galesburg, 


Mar. 31, 1831 


1890 


1857. 




elberger, >- 


and Pana, Illinois. 










Mary Adeline Honore, ) 


South (yarolioa. 


Sept. 1, 1834 


July 22, 1893 


Single. 


VI 


Marian Honore, 
Alice Hoke, 


Paaa, Illinois. 


Jan. 21, 1859 
Apr 6. 1861 




t( 




Charles Norman, 
James Heury, 
John Williard, 




May 26, 1863 
Feb. 24, 1866 
Oct. 3, 1870 




It 




William Henry, 




Oct. 19, 1872 




t( 




Jesse Lee, 


Galesburg, Illinois. 


Nov. 15, 1875 




1884. 


VI 


Alice H Eichelberger,) 
Ira Burlingham, )' 


Pana, Illinois. 
Washington, D. 0. 


Apr. 6, ie61 






VII 


Catherine Honore, 


it 


1885 








" Rath Lyons, 


ii 


1896 




1893. 


VI 


J. Henry Eichelberger, ) 
Margaret White, j 


Pana, Illinois, 










t( 








VII 


Norman Jute, 
Chauncey Honore, 




1894 
1898 





EICHELBEKGER FAMILY RECORD. 



39 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1898. 



VI 
VII 



John W. Eichelberger,\ 
Clara Hutchins, j 

Florence Esterbrook, 



Mar. 1, 
1855. 



Single. 



June 6, 
1899. 



V 
VI 



VI 
VII 



Nov. 27, 
1810. 



Jan 29, 

1826. 
Single. 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

IV 
V 

IV 

V 



Harvey S.Eichelberger? 
Lizzie Shaffer, j 

Edgar Milton, 

Martha Blanche, 

Caroline M., 

James Albert, 



Edgar M. Eichelberger ) 
Susie Collins, ) 

Mary Elizabeth, 



M.Blanche Eichelberg- 
er, 
C. W. Johnson, 



Caroline M. Eichelber- 
ger, 
C. O. Joline, 



Rosamond, 111. 



Virginia, and Gra- 
ham, Texas 



Graham, Texas 



Graham, Texas. 



Graham, Texas. 



cc 

tc 



Elizabeth Eichelberger) 
Lewis Smith, ) 

William, 

John, 

Lewis, 



Joseph Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Hoke, ) 

Harriet Ann, 

Mary, 

Michael, 

Virginia, 

Elizabeth, 

Susan, 

Martin, 

Grayson M., 

Marian, 



Georgetown, D. C. 



^Maryland. 

Mercersburg, Pa. 

Frederick Co , Md. 






Rocky Ridge, Md. 



Apr. 6, 1834 

June 20, 1858 
July 21, 1860 
Mar. 10, 1864 
June 10, 1868 



June 20. 1858 
July 26, 1900 



1900 



July 21, 1860 



Mar. 10, 1864 



Nov 26, 1786 

1812 
1815 
1817 



Oct. 10, 1795 

Nov. 10, 1828 
Apr. 10, 1830 
Nov.l4, 1831 
Jan. 12, 1833 
Mar. 8, 1835 
Dec. 21,1836 
July 16, 1839 
Nov.lO, 1842 
Apr. 16, 1845 



Oct. 10, 1854 



May 6, 1865 
1837 



40 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. ' 


Birth. 


Death. 


Nov. 25, 


V 


Mary Eichelberger, ) 
John Seabrooks, j 




Apr. 10, 1830 


1854 


1852. 




Frederick t'o , Md. 






Married 


VI 


Ella, (One child) 


In the West 


1853 


1898 


n 




William, (4 children.) 


Lincoln, Nebraska. 


1855 




.1 




Minnie, (5 children.) 


Dayton, Ohio. 


1857 








Elizabeth, 




1860 


Died young. 


It 




Milt )n, (5 children.) 


Vandalia, Ohio. 


1862 




^^ 




Charles, (One child.) 


Dayton, Ohio. 


1864 








Martha, 


Lincoln, Nebraska. 


1867 








Guy, 


Dayton, Ohio. 


1870 








Susan, (David Johnson) 


i( 


1875 




Nov. 14, 


V 


Michael F. Eichelberg ) 


Maryland and Day- 


Nov. 14, 1831 


Sept. 28,1893 


1854. 




er, [ 


ton, Ohio. 










Isabelle Favorite, ) 


<( 


Unknown. 


Living. 




VI 


Clara Elizabeth, 
Olive May, 
Virginia Montez, 




Aug. 26. 1855 
Mar. 5, 1857 
Sept. 14, 1863 


Sept.28, 1860 


Single 




Allen Grant, 
Blanche Larue, 
Claude Favorite, 


Dayton, Ohio. 


Hay 31, 1866 
June 3, 1868 
Oct. 24, 1871 




Feb. 27, 


VI 


Olive M. Eichelberger, ) 
Charles A. Grimes, ) 


Omaha, Nebraska. 


Mar. 5, 1857 




1884. 












VII 


Anna F, 


(( 


Feb. 17, 1885 








May Estelle, 


(1 


Apr. 1, 1S89 








George Favorite, 


i( 


May 17. 1894 




May 4, 


VI 


Virginia M Eichelber- \ 




Sept.l4, 1863 




1892. 




ger, \ 
William H. Anderson, ) 


Akron, Ohio. 






Sept. 12, 


VI 


Blanche L. Eichelber- ) 


Dayton, Ohio 


June 3. 1868 




. 1892. 




ger, [ 
Raymond T Shuey, ) 


u 








VII 


Raymond S. 


\. 


Apr. 26, 1893 




June 25, 


VI 


Claude F. Eichelberger") 


Dayton, Ohio. 


Oct. 24, 1871 




1896. 




Alma Nora Kimmel, f 









EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



41 




Nov. 30, 

1857. 
Single. 



1891. 



VI 



VI 
VII 



Jan. 14, 

1862. 
Single. 



Susan Eichelberger, ) 
Geo. Zimmerman, M.D.]" 

Clayton, 

Effle, 

Frank, 



Frank Zimmerman, 
Mary G. Black, 

Helen, 

Mary, 

Kathryn, 

Ruth, 

William, 



Maryland. 



Dec. 21, 1836 



1891 



Loys, Maryland. 



It 



VI 



Jan. .go, 
1894. 



VI 
VII 



Martin J. Eichelberger,) 
Cassandra Favorite, j 

Joseph Greyson, 

Carrie Acton, 

George Clarence, 

E. Gregg, 

Marian Favorite, 

George C.Eichelberger ) 
Effle A. Weant, f 

Ruth Weant, 

Clarence Earl, 



1892 

1894 
1896 
1898 
1900 



Emmitsburg, Md. 
Maryland. 



Maryland. 






Sept. 24, V 
1867. 

VI 



May 26, 
1896. 



VI 
VII 



Grayson M. Eichelber- 
ger, 
Hannah M. Coyner, 

Phoebe Nora, 

Maud Estelle, 

Lizzie Coyner, 

Sarah Marion, 

Meade Moore, 

Floyd Everett, 



Phoebe N.Eichelberger [ 
Train Caldwell Kirk, > 
Williard Coyner, 



Maryland, and Jeff- 
ersonville, Ohio. 



July 16, 1839 
Unknown. 
May 25, 1862 
Nov. 5, 1868 
Oct 25, 1865 
Feb. 28, 1867 
Jan. 30, 1875 



Jan. 4. 1895 
Dec. 6, 1896 



Oct. 22, 1896 

Unknown. 

Jan. 9, 1863 

Apr. 22, 1865 

Aug. 20,1897 



26 



Nov.lO, 1848 



July 10, 1868 
Sept. 8, 1869 
Sept. 15,1871 
Jan. 24, 1873 
Dec. 27, 1878 
Oct. 1, 1881 



July 10, 1868 
Dec. 5, 1897 



Oct. 27, 1870 



42 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Mar. 4, 


IV 


Susan Eichelberger, > 
Adam Hoke, ) 




Oct. 10, 1795 Oct. 14, 1830 


1817. 






Jan. 17, 1792lJune G, 1869 




V 


Ann Elizabeth, 






Dec 21,1865 






Louisa, (Rev. Hofer- 


Maryland. 


1818 


Oct. 16, 1884 






ditch.) 












Maria, (Rev. McCau- 


Reading, Pa. 


1825 








ley, D D.) 












Caroline, (JohnWebei) 


New York City. 


1827 








Harriet, (Andrew 


Mercersburg, Pa. 


Feb. 25, 1830 


Dec. 8, 1888 






Schnebly.) 








Single. 




Lewis W., 


Maryland. 


Nov. 3, 1822 


Sept.l7, 1825 




V 


Ann Elizabeth Hoke, ) 
HenryM.Eberly.D.D.S) 


Mercersburg, Pa. 
















Apr. 13, 


IV 


Martin Luther Eichel- ) 


Maryland and Shen- 


Nov.13, 1797 


Sept. 20, 1855 


1826. 




berger, ^ 
Maria C. Zimmerman, ) 


andoah Valley, Va. 








V 


Joseph Luther, 
Ann Eliza, 




Oct. 27, 1827 
Sept. 2, 1829 




Single. 




Jane Elizabeth, 


Charleston, S. C. 


Oct. 8, 1831 


May, 1898 






Maria Louisa, (Geo. W. 


Virginia. 


Dec. 31,1836 








Eichelberger.) 












Webster, 




Mar. 9, 1838 




•1 




George Frederick, 


Washington, D. 0. 


Dec. 18, 1842 




Oct. 3, 


V 


Joseph L. Eichelberger ) 
Deborah Sohaffer, ) 


Maryland and Vir- 


Oct. 22, 1827 




1854. 




ginia. 




1862 




VI 


Deborah, 




1855 








Millie, 




1859 


Died in inf y 


1865. 


V 


Joseph L. Eichelberger! 


Maryland and Vir- 


Oct. 22, 1827 








Eliza Catherine Deest,) 


ginia. 


1841 


1879 




VI 


Martin Luther, 




Feb. 4, 1867 




Single. 




Mary Catherine, 
Nettie May, 


Roanoke, Va. 


Oct 2S, 1868 
Oct. 24, 1873 




1883. 


V 


Joseph L. Eichelberger } 
Sarah Jane Barrick, f 


Maryland and Vir- 
ginia. 


Oct. 22, 1827 


Mar. 31, 1898 




VI 


Charles Barrick, 


Frederick Co., Md 


Apr. 28, 1885 




Nov. 1896 


VI 


Martin Luther Eichel- ) 

berger, V 

Ada Brotherton, ) 


Shepherdstown, 
W. Va. 


Feb. 4, 1867 






VII, 


Luther Brotherton, 






Died in inf'y 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



43 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



June 15, 

1898. 



June 17, 
1851. 



Single. 



Dec. 9, 
1874. 

Single. 



'May 26, 
1812. 



Mar. 1, 
1808. 



VI 
VII 



V 
VI 



Nettie M. Eichelberger ) 
J. Strider Moler, f 

Wallace McClure, 



VI 

IV 
V 

V 

VI 



IV 
V 



Ann ElizaEichelberger 
J. O. Smeltzer, 

Samuel 8 , (Blanche 
Eichelberger.) 

Martin L., 

George F., 

Ella Harriet, (Freder- 
ick K Muller.) 

Morris Eichelberger, 

Charles M., 

John B., (Angelina K. 
Booknight ) 

Sarah Katherine, (Ja 
cob L. Eargle.) 

Ida Jane, (Timothy 
Seyle.) 



Rev. Webster Eichel- 
berger, D. D. 

Elizabeth H chart, 
Philip Frederick, 
George Hobart, 



Maria Eichelberger, 
Jacob Krise, 
Anna F , 



Anna F Krise. ) 

George W Barrick, | 
Charles J.. (Emma J. 

Eichelberger.) 

Sarah Jane, (Joseph L 

Eichelberger ) 



Kellar, W. Va. 



Roanoke, Virginia. 



Oct. 24, 1873 
Apr. 23, 1900 



Magdalene Eichelberg- 
er, 
Henry Coppersmith, 

John, 

Lewis, 

Mary, 



Smithfield, Virginia. 
Yellow Spr'3, W.Va 



Sept. 2, 1829 

May 21, 1850 

Apr. 12, 1852 
Oct. 7, 1854 
Oct, 1, 1855 

Sept 5, 1857 
Oct. 5, 1859 
May 11, 1862 

May 16, 1865 

June 19,1S67 



Mar 9, 1838 



Maryland. 



Rocky Ridge. Md. 



District of Columbia. 



1876 
1875 



July 18, 1788 



Oct. 10, 1885 

Nov. 12, 1891 

Mar. 10, 1855 
Oct. 13, 1854 



July 18, 1863 
Mar. 5, 1876 
Mar. 3, 1893 



Dec. 15, 1886 



July 6, 1877 



Oct. 26, 1846 



July 24, 1785 



1810 
1813 
1815 



Unknown 

1854 
Unknown. 



44 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY EECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Apr. 21, 


IV 


Sophia Eichelberger,) 
John P. Zimmerman,) 


Maryland. 


Oct. 23, 1800 




1825. 




Maryland and Kan- 








V 


Susan, 

George, 

Lewis, 

Jacob, 

Martin, 

John, 


sas. 




Died young. 


Feb. 7, 


IV 


Lewis Frederick Eich- ) 


Winchester, Va 


Sept.21, 1803 


Sept. 16, 1859 


1830. 




elberger, D. D., >■ 
Mary Miller, ) 








Single 


V 


John Miller, 
Henry Samuel, 
Margretta, 
Charles Frederick, 




1831 

Aug. 12, 1832 

1834 

1836 


Aug. 8, 1854 


Mar. 14, 


IV 


Lewis P. Eichelberger, ) 


Winchester, Va. 


Sept.21, 1803 


Sept.16, 1859 


1839. 




D. D , LL. D. [ 
Penelope Hay, ) 








Single. 


V 


William Hay, Civil En- 
gineer. 
Edward Gary, 




July 20, 1848 
Nov. 1, 1850 




Oct. 26, 


V 


Henry S. Eichelberger, ) 


Staunton, Va. 


Aug. 12, 1832 


Jan. 24, 1887 


1859. 




M. D. [ 
Susan GatherineBaylor ) 








Single. 


VI 


George Baylor, 




Feb. 27, 1861 


June 20, 1880 






Hugh Gilbert, 


(1 


Feb. 21,1868 








Henry Lewis, 


<i 


Dec. 14, 1864 




t< 




Mamie Bell, 


<( 


Feb. 8, 1868 


June 29, 1889 


it 




Charles Preston, M D., 


New York City. 


Way 14, 1870 




tt 




Kate Edith, 


Staunton, Va. 


June 20, 1875 






VI 


Hugh G. Eichelberger, ) 
Sadie C. Crawford, J 


Staunton, Va. 


















VII 


Hugh Crawford, 


(1 


1892 








George Baylor, 


t( 


1896 








Henry Baxter, 


it 


1898 




June 30, 


VI 


Henry Lewis Eichel- ) 


Staunton,'' Va. 






1900. 




berger, y 
Nannie Griffin Herring ) 

9 









EICHELBEEGER FAMILY EECORD, 



45 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death, 


1854. 


V 


Margretta Eichelberger ) 
John W. Bushnell, j 


Virginia. 


1834 


1868 














VI 


Annie Lewis, 

Ella. 

John Miller, 






Died young. 




VI 


Ella Bushnell, } 
Joseph Sperry, ) 




1855 








Crawford, N. J. 








VII 












VI 


Rev John M Bushnell) 

D. D. >■ 

Anna Terrill, ) 


Winchester, Va. 
Salem, Va. 


Oct. 11, 1856 






VII 


Charles Eichelberger, 

George, 

Terrill, 

Sara, 

John E., 

Samuel, 

Margretta, 










V 


Charles Frederick ) 
Eichelberger, j- 


Virginia. 


1836 


May, 1895 






Cbarlotte Sperry, ) 


(( 


Unknown. 


Unknown. 






No issue. 








Oct. 10, 


V 


Edward C. Eichelberg- ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


Nov. 1, 1850 




1879. 




Julia H Sanderson, ) 


Baltimore Co., Md. 






Single, 


VI 


Julia P., 


Baltimore, Md , 


Sept 29, 1880 




i? 




Anna Lynn, 


tt 


Mar. 4, 1882 




it 




Louis Hay, 


•i 


Jan, 10, 1885 




(t 




Edward Gary, 


n 


Aug, 7, 1889 




t« 




Francis Maury, 


it 


Aug. 31,1893 








MICHAEL'S LINK. 








1814. 


IV 


Adam Eichelberger, ) 
Sarah E. Wolf, f 


York Co., Pa, Ind. 


Oct 12, 1791 


May 13, 1847 






Connersville, Ind, 


Aug. 27, 1795 


Aug.l 1,1841 




V 


Anna M., 

Eliza, 

Sarah, 




Oct. 12. 1815 
Oci. yO, 1817 
Dec 9, 1819 




Single. 




Henry, 


Indiana and Califor- 


1824 


Unknown. 






Louisa, 


nia. 


Apr. 1, 1830 








Rebecca, 




Mar. 10, 1822 








Martin, 




Dec. 1. 1828 








Susan, 




Jan,, 1833 




n 




Michael, 




1834 


1855 






Amanda, 


n 


Oct, 12, 1836 





46 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1835. 



Single. 



1840. 



Married. 



Single 



1850. 



V 
VI 



V 
VI 



VI 



V 
VI 

V 
VI 



Anna M. Eichelberger, } 
Benry Bcitzell, ^ 

Sarah Eichelberger, 
(Mr. Gentry.) 

Benjamin F, (U. S. A.) 

Marcellus, (Fanny Hen 
derson ) 

Irene, (C. M Walker.) 

Mary Lantz, (Mr. Car- 
roil.) 

Alice, (W. B. Com- 
mons.) 

Flora, (Albert Vogel.) 



Eliza Eichelberger, ) 
George Frybanger, ) 

Mary Susan, (Mr. Rip- 
per.) 

John Tyler, 

Sophia Alice, (Mr. 
Chitwood.) 

George, 

Charles H., 

Franklin Pierce, 



Sarah Eichelberger, ) 
John Reed, ) 

Josephine, 

Mary Gertrude, (Mr. 
IVlcCord ) 

Laura Jane, (Mr. 
Scott.) 

Kate S , 

Rebecca, 

Horace Mann, 

Walter Scott. 



Louisa Eichelberger, ) 
Walter Crawford, J 
Jennie, (Mr. Davis 
one daughter.) 



Centerville, Ind. 



Rebecca Eichelberger 
Jesse Holloa, 

Sarah Elizabeth, 

Augusta Jane, 

William Hei'.ry, 

Charles Payton, 

Martin C, 

George W , 

Abraham Lincoln, 



•} 



Mt. Vernon, 111. 

llichmond, Ind. 

Fort Wayne, Ind. 



Indiana. 
Connersville, Ind. 



n 
It 



Carlton, Col. 
Connersville, Ind. 



Ind. and Newton, la, 
California. 



Newton, Iowa. 



Indiana. 
California. 



Indiana. 



Oct. 12, 1875 

1837 

Jan., 1839 
July, 1843 

1S41 
1845 

1847 

1850 



Oct. 30, 1817 

Dec , 1797 

Feb. 22, 1841 

June 15, 1842 
Sept. 4, 1844 

Oct. 4, 184G 
July 24, 1848 
Feb. 26, 1852 



Dec. 9, 1819 



Jan. 18, 1886 



Tune 1. 1864 



1884 



Apr. 1, 1830 
1852 



May 18, 1886 
Mar. 26, 1853 



Sept.l9, 1842 



Oct. 10, 1885 



Mar. 26, 1884 



June 28, 1878 
Feb. 8, 1880 



1854 



Connersville, Ind 
Richmond, Ind. 



Mar. 10,1822;july 13,1872 
Nov. 6, 1814 July 10, 1866 
Sept. 8, 1842 Mar. 15,1856 
Dec. 14, 1844 Feb. 5, 1861 



Jan. 27, 1848 
Apr. 20, 1857 
Feb 20, 1854 
Oct. 12, 1857 
May 18. 1860 



Apr. 2i, 1875 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY EECORD. 



47 



Marriage 



Gee 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1856. 



1854 



V 
VI 



V 
VI 

IV 

IV 

V 



Martin Eichelberger, ) 
Dolph, f 



Henry, 



Susan Eichelberger, ) 
Alfred Gartman, ) 

No issue. 



Amanda Eichelberger, \ 
David Mount, J 

Mary, (Wm.McFarland) 



Polly Eichelberger, ) 
Martin Ebert, f 

No issue. 



Elizabeth Eichelberger ) 
Crum, ) 



Issue unknown. 



1820. 



Jan. 18, 

1823. 

Single. 



IV 

iv: 

V 



Michael Eichelberger, ) 

Elizabeth ) 

No issue. 



George Eichelberger ) 
Sarah Diehl, ) 

Martin, 

Anna Maria, 

Michael D., 

George W., 

Franklin, 

Charles F,, 

Sarah. 

Louisa Catherine, 



V Martin Eichelberger, { 
Catherine Geiselman, f 

VI George W , 
Michael E., 
Mary A , 
Emory K., 



Oklahoma. 
Kansas. 

York, Pa. 
(( 

Connersville, Ind. 



York Co., Pa. 
York, Pa. 



York Co. , Pa. 
Penna. and Kansas. 



Dec. 1, 1831 
May^Sl, 1858 

1832 



Oct. 12, 1836 



Jan., 1793 



Apr. 10, 1795 



1898 

1866 

Unknown. 



Unknown. 



ii.1875 



About 1866 
" 1860 



VI 

VII 



Geo. W. Eichelberger, 

Jr., 
Maggie Curry, 
Son, 



York Co., Pa. 



YorkC.-., Pa. 



York Co., Pa. 



Oct. 2, 1796 



Feb.f22, 
Aug. 23, 
Mar. 25, 
May 5, 
Mar. 20, 
Nov. 17, 
Mar 10, 
July 2, 
Apr. 12, 
July 4, 



1800 

1804 
1823 
1825 
1827 
1829 
1832 
1834 
1838 
1842 



Mar. 25, 1823 
1849 



1824 



Mar. 10, 1869 
Jan. 11, 1865 

Aug. 29, 1842 
May 14, 1863 
Feb 28,1838 

Apr 6, 1900 
1842 



May 26, 1889 

May 19, 1889 

1878 



1849 



1878 

1890 

1879 



48 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Singl* 



VI Michael E.Eichelberger 

Ida Low, 
VII Martin Luther, 

George E., 

Sadie B., 



April 11, 
1893. 



VI Mary A Eichelberger, j 
Daniel M. Herbst, j 

VI I Martin Alexander, 

George Eichelberger, 



Married 
Single. 
Married. 



VI 

V 
VI 



K 
II 



V 
VI 

V 
VI 



Emory K. Eichelberger) 
Alverta Kindig, ) 

No issue. 



Franklin Eichelberger, ) 
Louisa Hershey, J 

Albert, 

Sallie, 

Elsie, 

Willie, 

Hiram, 

Riley, 

Charles, 

Howard, 

Edward, 

Cora, 

George, 



Michael D. Eichelberg- 
er, 
Elizabeth Hershey, 

Henry, 

Edward, 



Charles F. Eichelberger | 
Susan Menges, \ 

Martin, 
Ira, (Miss Banmgart- 

ner.) 
George, 

William, (Ida Waters.) 
Ella, (Mr. Bollinger.) 
Clara, (Mr. Hershey.) 
Ada, (Mr. Raber.) 
Jennie, (Mr. Miller.) 



Louisa Catherine Eich- 
elberger, 
William Jacob Young, 
(Given elsewhere.) 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Adams Co., Pa. 



ti 
it 

K 

tc 



July 26, 1862 
Oct. 22, 1896 



Mar. 10, 1832 



York Co., 


Pa 


Hanover, 
York Co., 


Pa. 
Pa 






















t 




Hanover, 


Pa. 



Mar. 20, 1827 



Deceased. 



Died young. 



July 2, 1834 



May 14, 1863 



Apr. 6, 1900 



EICHELBEKGER FAMILY RECOED. 



49 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 






SAMUEL'S LINE. 






• 


Mar. 25, 


IV 


John Adam Eichelber- ) 


York Co , Pa. 


Nov. 26. 1791 


Jan. 2, 1818 


1815. 




ger, [ 
Rebecca Nace, ) 
No issue. 


Maryland. 






Dec. 5, 


IV 


Samuel S. Eichelberger | 
Elizabeth W. Rudisill, f 


Pa. and Maryland. 


Mar. 6, 1801 




1822. 




Carroll Co., Md. 




July 28, 1855 




V 


Andrew, 
Samuel C, 
Anna, 




Dec. 26, 1823 
June 6. 1826 
Apr. 11, 1831 




Single. 




Frederick Emanuel, 
Washington, 
Jacob H., 
Maria, 
Adam 8., 


Maryland. 


1834 
Sept. 20, 1836 
Feb. 8, 1839 
Dec. 13, 1843 
July 6, 1841 


1848 


Apr. 28, 


V 


Andrew Eichelberger, ) 
Isabelle B. Keyser, ) 


Maryland and Pilot 


Dec. 26, 1823 


Apr. 3, 1900 


1853. 




Grove, Mo. 




May 25, 1892 




VI 


George W., 
James M., 
Andrew Hoke, 




July 28, 1855 
Feb. 20, 1858 
Dec. 14, 1859 




Single. 




Jonathan Newton. 


California and Mo. 


Jan. 14, 1854 


Aug 30, 1875 


fci 




Charles E , 
Sarah Elizabeth, 


Pilot Grove, Mo. 


Dec. 29. 1856 
Apr. 20, 1862 


Jan 4, 1861 


1893 


V 


Andrew Eichelberger, ) 
Mrs. S. L. Phillips, J 


Pilot Grove, Mo. 


Dec. 26. 1823 


Apr. 3, 1900 






ti 










No issue. 








Dec. 13, 


VI 


Rev. George Eichelber- ) 


80 Institute Place, 


July 28, 1855 




1884. 




ger, D. D., \ 


Chicago, 111. 










Anna B Bowling, ) 


Ky. and Chicago, 111 




Nov. 6, 1896 


Single. 


VII 


Roberta Bowling, 


Chicago, 111. 


Feb. 10, 1888 




Nov. 13, 


VI 


James M. Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Alice Cordry, J 


Pilot Grove, Mo. 


Feb. 20, 1858 




1879. 




i4 








VII 


Jasper Earl, 


ti 


Feb. 14, 1881 








Alma Pearl, 


it 


May 15, 1883 


Aug. 26, 1884 






Anna B , 


t. 


July 25, 1885 








Eula M., 


tc 


Oct. 28, 1887 








Roger, 


ii 


Mar. 6, 1890 








William Andrew, 


It 


Aug. 17, 1892 








Gertrude, 


ii 


Sept.28, 1894 








James Grey Wood, 


ii 


Ju y 19, 1897 








Wear, 


ii 


Apr. 4, 1900 





27 



50 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Mar. 2 , 

1886. 



Dec. 21, 

.1881. 



VI 



VII 



VI 

V 
VI 

VI 

VII 



Single. 

it 



V 
VI 



June 20, V 
1866. 

VI 



Andrew Hoke Eichel- 

berger, 
Sallie Tavener, 

Clara Myrtle, 

Lillian 8,, 

Bessie E., 

Andrew M., 

Hall, 



Sarah E. Eichelberger, ) 
Rev. A. M. Buchanan, ) 



1895. 



VI 
VII 



No issue. 



Samuel C. Eichelberger ) 
Margaret Fogle, ) 

Babe, 

George, 



George Eichelberger, 
Emma 

George, 

Elizabeth, 

Charles, 

Nellie, 

Martin, 

Raymond, 

Bessie, 

John, 

Rheda, 

Ruble, 



Anna Eichelberger, ) 
William Dommer, j 
Issue, but unknown. 



Washington Eichelber- 
ger, 
Maria Jane Merritt, 

Jacob Lee, 

Daisy Annie, 

Thomas 8., 

Susie Myrtle, 

Nathaniel Henry, 

Tessie, 



J. Lee Eichelberger, I 
Harriet Custer. | 

Henry, 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



ti 
(I 
« 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 
Moberly Co., Mo. 



Carroll Co., Md. 



Near Lewistown, Md, 



Lewistown, Md. 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



ti 

« 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



Dec 14,1859 



Mar. 31, 1887 
Nov. 15,1888 
Nov.27, 1890 
Aug 29, 1892 



Mar. 20, 1862 



June 6, 1826 



Mar. 12, 1863 
Died in inf'y 



Apr. 11, 1831 



Sept. 20, 1886 July 9, 1898 



Aug.l9, 1868 
June 10,1875 
Aug.ll, 1876 
Feb. 23, 1880 
Oct. 17, 1882 



Aug. 19,1868 
189- 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECOED. 



51 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Nov. 1896 



1872. 
Single. 



June 10, 
1860. 



VI 
VII 

V 
VI 



Sept. 9, 
1867. 



Oct. 1890. 



V 
VI 

VI 
VII 



Mar. 25, 

1823. 



Feb. 27, 
1831. 



Mar. 10, 
1831. 



Single. 

t< 

n 



VI 



IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 



Daisy A. Eichelberger, 
Frank Oswald, 
Blanche, 



Jacob H Eichelberger, 
Emma Freshour, 

Clara E., 

Elsie E., 



Maria Eichelberger, ) 
David Mowry, ) 

Florence, 

Lillie, (Mr. Tavener ) 

Samuel, 

John, 

Lula M , 

Winfield. 



Adam S. Eichelberger,? 
Savilla C. Favorite, | 

Harvey C, 

Elsie, 

Frank, 



Harvey C Eichelberger ) 
MoUie Helms, f 

Mabel, 

Clayton, 



Susannah Eichelberger I 
Henry Rudisill, ) 



Elizabeth Eichelberger 
John Bixler, 



Jacob S Eichelberger, ) 
Mary Mechlin, f 

Sarah Eichelberger, 

Louisa M.. 

Adam S. M., 

Johannah C. M., 

Wm Henry D, U.S.A. 

Joseph Monroe, 

Mary Ellen M., 

Miriam Alice, 

Nelson, ■ 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



Lewistown, Md. 






Pilot Grove, Mo. 



K 
Ct 
(I 
it 



Pilot Grove, Mo 
it 



Pilot Grove, Mo. 



York Co., Pa. 
Heidelberg, Twp. 



York Co., Pa 



York Co., Pa. 



ii 

ti 

ii 

' " 

Hanover, Pa. 

Hanover and Balto. 



June 10, 1875 



Feb. 8, 1839 

May 10. 1874 
J*n, 21, 1878 



Dec. 13, 1843 

Oct. 17, 1861 
Sept. 16, 1870 
July 30, 1872 
Aug. 16, 1874 
Dec. 6, 1876 
Feb. 7, 1881 



July 6, 1841 
Sept 30, 1837 
May 14, 1869 
July 12, 1J571 
Oct. 35, 1878 



May 16, 1893 
Sept 19,1895 



Oct. 9, 1803 



Nov. 12, 1885 
June 12, 1882 



Jan. 8. 1806 



Mar. 9, 1808 
May 9, 1812 
Dec 31, 1831 
Oct. 14, 1834 
Nov. 22, 1837 
Feb. 24, 1841 
Mar. 8, 1844 
Oct. 4, 1847 
Sept.28,1851 
July 2, 1853 
Feb. 10, 1856 



Sept. 9, 1875 



Aug. 23, 1851 



Apr. 13, 1858 



Oct. 16, 1877 
July 17, 1894 



Jan. 25, 1865 
Oct. 16, 1878 

Jan. 26, 1874 



52 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY KECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



May 11, 
1854. 


V 
VI 


Apr. 27, 
1858. 


V 

VI 


Oct. 6, 
1861. 


V 




VI 


Mar. 12, 
1865. 


V 




VI 




V 




VI 




V 




IV 




V 


1827. 


IV 




V 




V 




VI 



Sarah E. Eichelberger,! 
Barney Rudisill, J 



Louisa M. Eichelberger 
Adam Smith, 
Emma B., (F. D. Dun- 
lap.) 
Savilla Alice, (E. E 

Haggerty.) 
Clara, (W. M. Keller ) 
Sharon E, (Blanche 
Shultz.) 



Adam S. M. Eichelber- 
ger, 
Sarah H. Sheaffer, 

Isaac 8., 

Alexander S., 



Johannah C. M. Eich- ) 
eiberger, v 

Jacob S. Bealing, ) 

Alverta,{Albert Roller) 
Lily M., (Mr. Bowman) 
Isaac J., (Miss Yealy ) 



Nelson Eichelberger, ) 
Anna Strawsbaoh, ) 
William Jacob, 



Nelson Eichelberger,) 
Lilly Russel, > 



George Eichelberger, 



Adam Eichelberger, 

Simon, 
William, 



Simon Eichelberger, 



York Co., Pa. 

York Co., Pa. 

Phillipsburg, Pa. 
Hanover, Pa. 

York Co., Pa. 



Pa , LosAngeles.Cal. 
Maryland. 



Hanover, Pa. 

n 
t{ 
•t 
It 



Hanover and Balto. 
Hanover, Pa. 

Hanover and Balto. 



Cumberland Co. Pa., 
and Ohio. 



Cumberland Co. Pa., 
and Ohio. 



Ashland, Ohio. 



Dec. 31, 1831 



Oct. 14, 1834 



Nov. 22, 1837 

Unknown. 
June 25, 1862 
Feb. 22, 1864 



Feb. 24, 1841 



Apr. 26, 1866 
May 26, 1868 
Nov. 15, 1873 



Feb. 10, 1856 
Aug. 6, 1880 

Feb. 10, 1856 
Nov. 2, 1797 

Oct., 1801 

Apr. 20, 1828 
1831 

Apr. 20, 1828 



Deceased. 
Jan. 22, 1899 



Feb. 5, 1865 
Unknown. 



About 1883 
Sept. 21,1881 



Deceased. 



Aug., 1891 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD 



53 



Marriage Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 

IV 
V 



IV 
V 

IV 

V 

IV 
V 



Samuel Eichelberger, 



Henry Eichelberger, 



Elizabeth Eichelberger) 
John Robb, j 



Elizabeth E. Robb, ) 

■)\ 



Harmon, (2d mar. 



Susannah Eichelberger ) 
David Orria, ) 



Sarah Eichelberger, ) 
John Miller, J 



Mary Eichelberger, ) 



Speer, 



Line of Adain*8 See 
ond Marriage. 

Isabelle Eichelberger, ) 
Benizer, J 



Hetty Eichelberger, ) 
Crider, ) 



Susea Eichelberger,) 
Hichnell, > 



54 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1854. 



Single. 



VI 



VI 
VII 



VI 

VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 

VI 



William Eichelberger, ) 
Susan Mell, \ 

John Adam, 

William Allen, 

Benjamin Franklin, 

Harvey A , 

Joseph Elmer, 

Ella Mary, 

Selesta A , 

Celia Mary, 



John A. Eichelberger, \ 
Minnie Bengle, > 

Ada, 

Ray, 

Roy, 



W. Allen Eichelberger ) 
Ida Ergle, ) 

Edna, 



Benj. F. Eichelberger,) 
Bessie Prince, ) 

Grace, 



Harvey A Eichelberger)^ 
Jessie Weaver, J 

Earl, 



Joseph E Eichelberger) 
Olive Clark, > 

Clark Elmer, 
Joseph Herbert, 



Selesta Eichelberger, I 
Jerome Boyer, > 

Helen, 



Celia M. Eichelberger,) 
Charles Shoesmith, > 



Cumberland Co, Pa., 
and Ohio. 



Wayne Co , Ohio. 
Stevenson Co., 111. 



Ashland Co., Ohio, 
and Indiana. 



1831 

June 6,1855 
Jan. 26, 1858 
May 10, 1859 
Oct. 27, 1860 
Apr. 7, 1863 

Dec. 8, 1867 
Jan. 24, 1871 



June 6, 1855 



Ohio. 



Wayne Co., Ohio. 



Wayne Co., Ohio. 



Freeport, 111. 



ti 



Jan. 26, 1858 



May 10, 1859 



Oct. 27, 1860 



Apr. 7, 1863 



Freeport, 111. 



Stephenson Co , 111. 



Dec. 8, 1867 



Jan. 24, 1871 



1893 



EICHELBEEGEB, FAMILY RECORD 



55 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 






JOSEPB'8 LINE. 








1828. 


IV 


James Eichelberger, ) 
M D V 


Emmitsburg, Md. 


June 17, 1804 


Aug 12,1895 


Single 
ii 


V 


Anna Motter, ) 
Gustayus M., 
Motter, 

Mary Elizabeth, 
Marian F , 
Charles Dicks, 
Columbia M,, 
James M., 
Anna M., 


(t 

(( 
<( 
Ii 


Feb. 17, 1808 
June 26, 1829 
Sept. 24,1832 
Oct. 18, 1831 
May 7, 1837 
Mar. 2, 1835 
Aug. 28,1839 
Oct. 5, 1841 
Jan. 3, 1844 


Aug. 19, 1888 
Oct. 26, 1829 
Dec. 17, 1850 

Dec. 21, 1853 




V 


Mary E. Eichelberger,) 
Rev. C. J Ehrhart, j 
No issuBi 


Emmitsburg, Md. 


Oct. 18, 1831 


Deceased. 




V 
VI 


James M. Eichelberger ) 
M.D., [ 
Minnie Hoke, ) 
Charles Dicks, Jr., 


Emmitsburg, Md. 








V 
VI 


Anna M. Eichelberger,) 
Eugene Rowe, | 
Mary Belle, 








Nov. 29, 
1832. 

Single. 


IV 
V 


Job Dicks Eichelberger^ 
Amy Ann Boomer, j 

AnnaMargaret) x_- „ 

Joseph Niles, ; ^^^^s. 

Elizabeth Jane, 

John James, 

Emma Johanna, 


Rocky Ridge, Md. 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Maryland. 

Paris, Kentucky. 
t< 


Oct. 23, 1808 

May 12, 1836 

Feb. 15, 1838 
Dec. 25, 1839 
Nov. 7, 1847 


Aug. 25, 1850 
1898 
1871 


Nov. 27, 
1851. 

Single. 


IV 
V 


Job Dicks Eichelberger) 
Maria H. Cloud, j 

MaryF., 

Martha Dicks, 

Melvina Rebecca, 

rielen Maria, 

Jessie Cloud, 


Maryland, 
it 

(4 
tt 
It 
II 


Mar 22,1819 
Sept.24, 1852 
Sept.l3, 1854 
July 3, 1856 
Mar. 28 1859 


1876 




V 
VI 


Anna M. Eichelberger,) 
Benjamin Durall, ) 
Wilbur H ,' 


Frederick Co., Md 
Frederick, Md. 




Deceased. 




V 


Elizabeth J. Eichelber- ) 






Sept. 10, 1865 




VI 


ger, >- 
John H. Williams, ) 
Preston H., 


Kentucky. 
Versailles, Ky. 







56 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY EECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


Jan 6, 


V 


1876. 






VI 




V 




VI 




V 




VI 




V 




IV 




IV 


r 


IV 


Single. 

ii 


V 




IV 


\. 


V 


Single. 






V 


Single. 

41 


VI 


• t 




<< 





NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Emma J. Eichelberger,) 
Charles J. Barrick, )" 

George Dicks, 

Charles Newell, 

Harry W., 

Grove Eichelberger, 

Nannie Susan, 

Morris Victor, 

Children of Job's second 
marriage. 

Mary F. Eichelberger,)^ 
Benjamin Gobin, ) 



Martha D Eichelberger) 
J. S. Valentine, > 



Jessie C. Eichelberger,)^ 
Norcroft, > 



Joanna Eichelberger,) 

Miller, S 

Josephine Eichelberger | 

Otto, i 



LINE OP SALOME, 

Youngest child of 
Capt. Adam. 

Joseph Eichelberger \ 

Cremer, v 

Rebecca Wirt, ) 

Charles Edwin, 

Henry Wirt, 



Charles Cremer,| 
Polly Bollinger,) 

Salome, (Mr. Bender.) 

John Adam, 

Anna Maria,(Mr.Wolf) 

Joseph Eichelberger, 

Amelia E., 



John Adam Cremer, ) 
Catherine Reiflf, \ 

Frank Eugene, 
Mary Katherine, 
Charles Henry, 
Joseph Eichelberger, 



Rocky Ridge, Md. 



Johnstown, Pa. 



Omaha, Nebraska. 



Johnstown, Pa. 



Maryland. 



Maryland. 



York Co., Pa. 

Hanover, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa 

Manchester, Kansas. 

Hanover, Pa. 
ti 

<t 

tt 



Hanover, Pa. 
(I 



Nov. 7. 1847 
Oct. 26. 1846 
Nov. 5, 1878 
Dec. 19, 1876 
Feb. 4, 1881 
Dec. 6, 1884 
Feb. 22, 1887 
Jan. 5, 1892 



Sept.13, 1806 



Apr. 5, 1810 



Jan. 19, 1813 

Oct. 9, 1822 
Sept. 10, 1847 
Jan. 8, 1841 



July, 1815 

1840 
Feb. 17, 1842 

1«47 
1850 



Feb. 17, 1842 

1875 
1880 
1882 
1884 



July 2, 1887 



Sept., 1887 



Unknown. 



Unknown. 



July 9, 1874 

July 26, 1866 
Dec. 8, 1883 
Nov. 7, 1891 



Sept. 6, 1850 



Jan., 1876 
1867 



Line of Jacob Eichelberger, 

Second Son of Philip Frederick Eichelberger and His Second Wife, 

Magdalene. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




II 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Anna Maria Reinacker ) 


Hanover, Pa. 


Sept. 26, 1746 


Aug. 14,1811 






u 


Mar. 26, 1752 


May 19, 1837 




III 


Jacob, 


( 


Apr. 24, 1775 




1796. 


III 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Nace, ) 


Hanovef, Pa. 


Apr. 24, 1775 


Aug. 18, 1843 














IV 


Louisa, 


ti 


Dec, 1797 


Mar. 4, 1872 






Maria, 


It 


Mar. 10, 1799 


Mar. 26, 1872 






Eliza, 


t( 


Aug 20, 1800 


June 10,1841 






Susanah, 


{( 




Died young. 


1819. 


IV 


Louisa Eichelberger,? 


Hanover, Pa. 


Dec, 1797 


Mar. 4. 1872 






George T^one, T 


t . 


1788 


1875 




V 


Anua Maria, (Adam 
Hiukle ; no issue.) 


i< 


1830 


1843 


Single. 




Albeit Eicht'lberger, 


Florida. 


1822 


July 7, 1890 






Louisa Elizabeth, (D.Q. 


Hanover, Pa. 


Sept.15, 1826 


July 12, 1896 






Albright ; no issue.) 












Matthias Edmund, 


K 


Oct. 20, 1824 








Catherine M , 


(4 


1828 




(( 




Pamela, 


(1 










George Eichelberger, 


l( 


1832 




t> 




Daniel, 


« 


1834 


Jan 26, 1882 






Samuel Emanuel, 


It 


18b7 




June 3, 


V 


Matthias E Trone, ) 
CatheriuirJ. Hinkle, J 


Hanover, Pa. 


Oct. 20, 1824 


Mar. 17, 1853 


1851. 




(I 




July 17, 1859 


Single. 


VI 


Emily J., 


t( 






/ 


V 


Catherine M. Trone, > 
Absalom G. Schmidt,)" 


Hanover, Pa. 


1828 


June 23, 1892 


Single 


VI 


Martha Louisa 
Rev. Ambrose M.,(Miss 
Stau£fer ; one son.) 


Washington, D. C. 
Lancaster, Pa. 










George T ,(Mis&Krebs; 


Hanover, Pa. 


Oct. 12, 1859 








four boys.) 












Catherine M , (Mr, Na- 


Washington, D. C. 


1861 








gle ; one son ) 









28 



57 



58 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


George E. Trone,) 

Amelia Stark, j" 


Hanover, Pa. 


1832 


Dec. 7, 1890 




VI 


EUaO ,(Dr. J. A. Mel- 
sbeimer; 2 children) 
Maurice N., 


it 










Twins, 






Died in inf y 




V 


Samuel E. Trone,) 
Louisa Thomas, ) 


Hanover, Pa. 


















VI 


Mabel K., (Harry K. 
Schriver; no issue.) 


(1 






Single 




Ralph E., 

* 


{( 








IV 


Eliza Eichelberger,) 




Aug.20, 1800 








Michael Barnitz, | 


Westminster, Md. 


Jan. 8. 1797 






V 


Elizabeth S., 
Covington, 




Jan. 31, 1820 
Apr. 19, 1822 




Dec. 29, 


V 


Elizabeth Barnitz, ) 




Jan. 31, 1820 


May 6, 1900 


1842. 




Rev. Joseph Sei8s,D.D. >- 
LL D., ) 


Philadelphia, Pa. 








VI 


Helen Elizabeth, (Mr. 
Vanderslice, D. D.S ; 
no living issue.) 


i( 






Single. 




Mary Louisa, 


<i 






»i 




Covington Few, 


K 






tt 




Lennie Josephine, 
RaU'h William, M. D., 

(Virginia Taylor ; no 

issue.) 


It 

it 








V 


Covington Barnitz,) 
Anna C. Claggett, j" 


Baltimore, Md. 








VI 


John C, 

Grace, (Mr. Worthing- 
ton, deceased.) 


•( 


May 20. 1851 


Apr. IG, 1852 


Single. 




Anna Covington, 


t( 


« 




Dec. 19, 


IV 


Maria Eichelberger,) 


Hanover, Pa. 


Mar. 20, 1799 


Mar. 26, 1872 


1820. 




Jacob Young, )" 




Dec. 4 1795 


June 8, 1875 




V 


Alexander. 


Adams Co , Pa. 


Mar. 27, 1824 




Single. 




Ann Eliza, 


Hanover, Pa. 


Dec. 12, 1825 








Edward Eichelberger, 


ti 


Nov. 28, 1827 


• 






Maria Louisa, 


<< 


Sept 22, 1829 








Henry Augustus, 


it 


May 26, 1832 








Cornelius, 


it 


May 9, 1835 








William Jacob, 


it 


June 14, 1838 





EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



59 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



June 20, 

1848. 



Single. 



April 18, 

1854. 
Married. 



V 
VI 



V 
VI 



May 19, V 
1853. 

VI 



Dec. 17, 

1857. 



V 



Ocf.25, 

1870. 
Single. 



Jan. 3, 
1861. 



V 
VI 

V 
VI 



Single. 



li 



VI 
VII 

VI 
VII 



Alexander Young, ) 
Rebecca Felty, ) 

Rose Elizabeth, 

George W., 

Rebecca Jane, 

Jacob H., CAgaes Reb^ 
ert, deceased.) 



Edward E. Young, ) 
Elizabeth Alexander, f 
Hugh, (Has children ) 



Maria Louisa Young,) 
Henry L Sprenkle, ) 

Hamilton Young, 

Mary J., 



Henry A. Young,) 
Catherine Reiff, ) 
No issue. 



Henry A. Young, | 

Mrs Elizabeth Mickleyj 
No issue. 



Cornelius Young, ) 
Nancy Bcchtel, ) 
ijlverta, 



William Jacob Young, ) 
Louisa C. Eichelberger j 

Ida, 

Sarah B , 

Robert L., 

Cora, 

Grace M., 

Anna Katherine, 

Carrie M., 

Edward B., 

Helen E , 

Henry William, 



George W. Young, ) 
Ella Weikert, ) 

Ada, 



Rose Elizabeth Young,) 
Levi H. Eckert, ) 

Georgia, 

Paul, 



Hanover, Pa. 



It 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Baltimore, Md. 

Omaha, Nebraska 

Hanover, Pa. 



Baltimore, Md. 
Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Hanover, Pa. 



Mar. 27, 1824 



Nov. 28, 1827 
Jan. 6, 1826 



Sept, 22,1829 
8ept.27, 1827 



May 26, 1832 
1829 



Nov.16, 1873 



May 9, 1835 



May 6, 1857 
Sept.l2, 1888 



1899 
Feb. 3, 1857 



Mar. 27, 1899 
Apr. 13, 1889 



1885 



Died young. 



60 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Apr. 30, 

1878. 

Single, 
it 


VI 
VII 


Hamilton Y. Sprenkle,> 
Anna George, )' 

Arthur George, 

Walter Young, 

Emma, 

Louise, 


Hanover, Pa. 

Pittsburg, Pa. 

Hanover, Pa, 
It 


F'eb.21, 1881 
Feb. 4, 1884 
May 24, 1888 
May 28, 1890 




Jan. 17, 
1882. 


VI 
VII 


Mary J. Sprenkle, \ 
John Luther Long,)" 
Bayard Henry, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 








VI 

VII 


Ida Young, ) 
John H. Brough,) 

Charles Young, 

Katie, 

Myra, 


Hanover, Pa. 

{< 
<{ 








VI 
VII 


Sarah B. Young, ) 
George A. Klinefelter, j 

Edward, 

Katie, 


Baltimore, Md. 

n 
<i 




Deceased. 




VI 
VII 


Robert L. Young,) 

Nellie Morris, > 
William M., 


Omaha, Nebraska. 

Cfc 






June 2, 
1892. 


VI 
VII 


Cora Young, ) 

H. M. Alleman, M. D ,j" 

Winnemore Young, 


Hanover, Pa. 

(C 






Oct. 20, 

1893. 


VI 
VII 


Grace M. Young,) 
Harry C. Naill, > 
Richard Young, 
Catherine Elizabeth, 


Hanover, Pa. 
<( 

(t 

CI 


Apr. 21, 1896 
Mar. 17, 1899 




Sept. 1898 


VI 


Anna K. Young, { 
Frank H. Jenkins,) 


Hanover, Pa. 

11 







EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD 



61 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




III 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Maria Wirt, j 


Hanover, Pa. 


Apr. 24, 1775 


Aug. 18, 1843 


2d wife. 






Sept.l9, 1787 


Aug. 28, 1865 




IV 


Matthew, 


Gettysburg, Pa. 


Oct. 27, 1807 








Jacob, 


Hanover and Ala. 


Aug.28, 1811 








Henry, 


Hanover, Pa. 


Oct. 27, 1813 








Catherine M., 


Penna. and Georgia. 


May 4, 181? 








Abdiel W., 


Hanover, Pa. 


Dec. 6, 1819 








Rufus A , 


n 


May 20, 1822 


♦ 






Amanda, 


Hanover and Oxford 


Sept 14, 1826 








Amelia H., 


Hanover, Pa. 








IV 


Matthew Eichelberger, J 
Mrs. Ickes ; maiden >• 
name.Sarah Tucker ) 
No issue. 


Gettysburg, Pa. 


Oct, 27, 1807 


May 23, 1893 
Nov. 9, 1893 


1840. 


IV 


Jacob Eichelberger, | 
Assenath Scoggins, \ 


Oxford, Alabama. 


Aug. 28, 1811 


Nov. 4, 1881 








July 20, 1820 


Mar. 23, 1870 




V 


Elizabeth, 




July 25, 1843 








Anna Maria, 




July 21, 1844 


Died young 






Charles W., 




July 10, 1846 








John W.. 




May 29, 1848 


i( 






Catherine, 




June 18, 1850 








Mary, 




Sept.23, 1852 








Martha, 




Oct. 1, 1854 








Jacob, 




Jan. 25, 1857 


(t 






George W., 




Sept 18, 1859 




Dec.,1871 


IV 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Mrs. Charlotte Allen, \ 


















Single. 


IV 


Henry Eichelberger, 


Hanover, Pa 


Oct. 27, 1813 


Feb. 28, 1890 


Dec, 1839 


IV 


Catherine Eichelberger ) 
Samuel Alex. McCosh, J 


Pa., then to Georgia 


May 4, 1817 


Sept. 8, 1868 






in 1844, 




1864 




V 


Mary Wirt, 


Georgia. 


Jan., 1841 








James Eichelberger, 


Alabama. 


May 12, 1843 








Louisa Deborah, 


(. 


Apr. 14, 1845 








Samuel Alexander, 


Georgia 


June 22, 1848 








Cornelius Rufus, 


Hanover, Pa. 


May 29, 1850 








Henry Clay, 


Buried at Hanover. 


1852 


1852 






Catherine M , 


Atlanta, Georgia. 


July, 1854 




Single. 


IV 


Abdiel Wirt Eichelberger 


Hanover, Pa. 


Dec. 6, 1819 




Single. 


IV 


Rufus A. Eichelberger, 


Hanover, Pa. 


May 20, 1822 


Aug. 3, 1885 


Dec. 16, 


IV 


Amanda Eichelberger, ) 
Abdiel F. Gitt, J 


New Oxford, Pa. 


Sept.14, 1826 


May 2, 1871 


1847. 




(t 


Jan. 27, 1823 






V 


Mary F , 
Catherine Wirt, 








Single. 


IV 


Amelia H. Eichelberger, 


Hanover, Pa. 







62 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Au^. 22, 


V 


Elizabeth Eicbelberger ) 
Jesse Garrett, J 


■ Alabama. 


July 25, 1842 




1858, 




t» 


July 8, 1832 


Apr. 30, 1891 




VI 


Mary Kate, 


It 


Apr. 15, 1860 








Sarah Frances, 


It 


Mar. 16, 1862 




Jan. 26, 


V 


Elizabeth E Garrett, ) 
A. B. Mullin8,(2cl mar) [ 








1893. 




- 




Mar. 17, 1895 


Oct. 1, 


V 


f:;ha9. W. Eicbelberger, ) 
Nancy Thoma8 Brooks f 


Rock Mills, Ala. 


July 10, 1846 




1865. 




(( 


1850 


1880 




VI 


Stella Blanche, 


It 


Dec. 1, 1871 


Apr. 14, 1880 






Pauline D , 


K 


Feb. 23, 1873 








Jacob Wirt, 


II 


Oct. 14, 1876 








Maggie Thomas, 


II 


Sept. 14,1880 




Jan. 1, 


V 


Chas. W. Eicbelberger, ] 


Rock Mills, Ala. 






1881. 




Irene Taylor, (2d mar ))' 


11 








VI 


Katharine W., 


K 


Feb, 1, 1883 








Charles Henry, 


11 


Sep ,27, 18S5 




Oct. 28, 


V 


Catherine Ei^helberger) 


Alabama and Texas, 


June 18, 1850 


Feb. 23, 1883 


1866, 




John M. Suddutb, j" 


ii 


Dec 31. 1840 


Aug 22, 1889 




VI 


Anna M., 


i; 


Nov. 1, 1867 








John W., 


Alabama. 


Nov. 4, 1869 


Sept,14,1871 






Charles V., 


Alabama and Texas. 


JuQe29,1871 








Ora A , 


Texas and Oklahoma 


Feb. 24, 1874 








Mary C, 


Texas. 


Sept 4, 1876 


Sept. 5, 1878 






Estella, 


II 


Sept. 9, 1879 








Jacob L., 


ti 


Jan. 28, l!:82 


June 25. 1883 


1877. 


V 


Martha Eicbelberger, ) 
George CunuiDgham, j 


Alabama. 


Oct 1, 1«54 


1886 






it 








VI 


Newton Eicbelberger, 
James Pratt, 
Mary Katberiue, 




Oct 10. 18S0 
July 12, 1883 
Aug. 18,1885 




1867 


V 


Mary Eichelbeiger, 
Thomas Holly, 


Rock Mills, Ala. 


Aug. 23,1852 












About 1890 




VI 


Mary Ida, 
Carro-Belle, 
George W., 
Martha B., 
Kale C , 




Sept. 9, 1868 
Dec. 1, 1869 
Dec. 1 6, 1875 
Apr. 29, 1874 
Sept.27, 1877 








Amelia Eicbelberger, 


Alabama. 


Jau. 16, 1889 








Charles W , (Anna 




Dec. 11, 1879 








Green ) 









EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD 



63 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES, 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


George W.Eichelberger ) 
Emma F. Allen, j 


near Savannah, Ga, 


Sept 18, 1859 










It 










VI 


Paul Metzgar, 


tt 


Aug. 26, 1881 






July, 1899 




Annie Ray, (William 
Turner.) 


Meldrin Georgia. 


July 11, 1883 










Jacob Allen, 


Georgia. 


June 80, 1886 


Sept 5, 


1886 






George Kalph, 


near Savannah, Ga. 


June 28, 1887 


July 1, 


1900 






SaJlie Mae, 


,( 


Dec. IC, 1888 










John Abdiel, 


t» 


Nov. 20, 1890 










Amanda Blanche, 


ti 


Nov 18, 1892 










Amelia Blonell, 


K 


(i 


Apr. 18, 


1893 






Augustus Lee, 


tt 


June 27, 1894 










Albert Wirt, 


ti 


Feb. 4. 1897 










Rufus Alton, 


tt 


July 7, 1898 








V 


Mary W. McCoeh,) 
N. E. Baker, j 


Alabama. 


Jan., 1841 


Mar. 1, 


1896 














Dec. 27, 


VI 


Mary Louise, (W. A. 


Norfolk, Virginia. 


Oct. 4, 1871 






1899. 




■Gilham.) 
James Henry, 
Cornelius Edwin, 
Silas Whilton, 


Alabama, 
tt 

ct 


Feb. 7, 1873 
Oct. 12, 1875 
Feb. 7, 1878 






• 


V 


James E. McCosh, ) 
Mary E Birdsong, f 


Alabama. 


May 12, 1843 












Jan. 15, 1850 








VI 


Samuel Abdiel, 
Anna Rebecca, 
John Birdsong, 
Ruth, 


It 
tt 
tt 
tt 


Sept.29, 1871 
Nov. 13, 1872 
Aug.27, 1876 
May 31, 1878 






Jan. 1870 


V 


Louisa D. McCosh, | 
James H. Hines, \ 


Rock Mills, Ala. 


Apr. 14, 1845 


Dec. 5, 


1900 








Jan. 4, 1848 








VI 


Nancy Kalherine 
Cornelius Elmer, 
James Alexander, 
Sarah Louise, 
Annie Dimon, 
Mary Wirt, 


it 

tt 
tt 
tt 
tt 
tt 


Sept. 14, 1870 
Dt^c 25,1872 
Aug. 28, 1878 
Nov. 3, 1880 
Mar. 15, 1883 
Jan. 9, 1885 






Apr. 2i, 


V 


Samuel A. McCosh, ^^ 


Atlanta, Georgia 


June 22, 1848 


May 4, 


1890 


1879. 




Louise W Kellog)^, j 




Nov. 19, 1859 








VI 


James Nathaniel, 
Rufus Eichelberger, 
Marshall Kellogg, 
Louise Alice, 


Hanover, Pa. 

.t 

1 1 
tt 


Apr. 6, 1881 
Aug. 7, 1883 
Dec, 3, 1885 
Oct. 31, 1888 






1879 


V 


Cornelius R. McCosh, ) 
Nancy E. Baugher, \ 


Hanover, Pa 


May 29, 1850 










tt 


Jan. 9, 1857 








VI 


Irma Kathryn, 
Henry Eichelberger, 
Robert Alexander, 
Louise Baugher, 


1 1 
<t 

ti 


Sept.23, 1879 
Aug. 13,1881 
Nov. 24, 1882 
May 20, 1889 







64 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1875. 


V 


Catherine McOosh, ) 
James A. Ware, J 


Atlanta, Georgia. 


July, 1854 


Aug. 12,1895 






«t 




1894 




VI 


Alexander M., 


ti 


1875 


1894 


Single. 




James Melville, 


Alabama. 


Mar 28, 1880 




n 




John Matthew, 


t( 


July 15, 1883 




it 




Cornelius, 


t( 


A.ug. 3, 1888 




Mar. 14, 


V 


Mary F. Gitt. ) 
Paul Hersh, ) 


New Oxford, Pa 




Jan. 8, 1899 


1872. 




Washington, D. C. 








VI 


No is8ue. 








Apr. 19, 


V 


Catherine W Gitt, ) 
William A. Himes, f 


New Oxford, Pa. 




CUu^"^^' 


1877 




n 




Single 


VI 


AunaKatherine, 


<t 




Jh 


It 




Amelia Eichelberger, 


u 






(t 




Helen Lanius, 


^i 






(ft 




William D., 


ii 






Apr RO, 


VI 


Mary Catherine Garrett ) 
W. B DeArman, J 


Texas. 


Apr. 15, 1860 




1876 




it 








VII 


Estelle J , 


(t 


Oct. 10. 1878 








Jessie L , 


it 


Apr 10, 1881 


• 






Storie T , 


ii 


Dec 29. 1884 








Rufus A., 


11 


May 13. 1887 








Elizabeth, 


i( 


Dec. 7. 1889 








Monnie B , 


i( 


Mar. 26, 1895 








Herbert H., 


Ii 


Feb. 11,1899 




Nov. 25, 


VI 


Sarah Frances Garrett, ) 
C. L. Cunningham, ) 


Texas. 


Mar. 16, 1862 




1877. 




ii 








VII 


Jessie H., 


ti 


Tan. 25, 1879 








Kate 8 , 


it 


Jan. 24, 1881 


Nov. 4, 1885 






George Eichelberger, 


ti 


Jan 4, ieS3 


May 22, 1886 






Louis B , 


tt 


Mar. 5, 1885 








Abdiel W., 


it 


Aug. 15, 1887 








Charles L , 


ti 


Jan. 19, 1889 








•Mary E , 


ti 


May 20, 1891 








Mattie Florence, 


it 


Jan. 12, 1894 


May 87, 1896 






Elma Ray, 


it 


Dec. 14, 1898 




Nov. 26, 


VI 


Anna M. Sadduth, ) 
H. R. Mullius, M. D. f 


Wise Co , Texas. 






1885. 




it 








VII 


Maud, 
Kate S., 


ii 


Sept.l9, 1886 
Aug. 5, 1888 








Lemuel Eichelberger, 


It « 


Sept. 18, 1890 








Ruby G., 


Ii 


Jan. 9, 1895 








Mary R. 




Mar. 5, 1898 




Jan. 16, 


VI 


Ora F Sudduth, { 


Texas. 






1891. 




R F Forrester, ) 


Oklahoma. 








VII 


Maggie L 
George W. 




Dec. 8, 1891 
Sep .12, 1893 


Nov., 1893 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



65 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1891. 



VI 
VII 



VI 



VI 
VII 



VI 



VI 

VII 



VI 
VII 



29 



George W. Holly,) 
Irene K , 



Mary J. Holly, ) 
Glove Truitt, M D. ) 
Keener Holly, 
Webbie DeCosta, 
Clifford, 



Carro Belle Holly, ) 
William White, ) 



Charles Wirt Holly, ) 
Anna Green, ) 



N. Katherine Hines, 
— Hilt, M. D., 
Irma Louise, 
James Hines, 



Elmer Hines, 



James Roy, 
Baby, 



Alabama. 



(I 



Alabama. 



Alabama. 



Alabama. 



Alabama. 



Alabama. 



Sept. 9, 1892 
July 10, 1897 
Mar. 14, 1899 



Oct. 7, 1898 



Apr. 27, 1895 
Apr. 23, 1897 



Mar. 15, 1896 
Dec. 17, 1899 



Line of Leonard Eichelberger, 

Third Son of Philip Frederick Eichelberger and His Second Wife, 

Magdalene. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1775. 


II 


Leonard Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Smyser, ) 


York Co., Pa. 


Aug. 12, 1750 


Feb. 14, 1811 








Mar. 11, 1753 


Jan. 26, 1817 




III 


Jacob, 
Mary M., 




1776 
Jan. 20, 1778 








Sarah, 




Apr., 1781 




• 




Frederick, 

George M., 

John, 

Elizabeth, 

Lydia, 

Susan, 




Aug. 24, 1783 
Feb. 11, 1784 
Feb. 5, 1787 
Mar. 3, 1789 
Nov. 7, 1792 
1794 








Catherine, 


1 


Apr. 6, 1795 


Drowned, 
Aug. 12, 1810 




III 


Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Elizabeth Dinkle, j 


York, Pa. 


1776 


June 17, 1831 






ik 




Oct. 9, 1832 




IV 


Eliza, 

Catherine, 

Maria, 




Oct. 9, 1807 
1809 
1812 




Mar. 8, 


IV 


Eliza Eichelberger, ) 


■■ 


Oct. 9, 1807 


June 6, 1895 


1827. 




Geo. L. Shearer, M. D.)" 


Dillsburg, Pa. 


Mar. 21, 1801 


Feb.. 1868 




V 


Jacob Eichelberger, 




Jan. 21, 1828 


Feb. 2, 1828 






Susanah Elizabeth, 




Feb. 21, 1832 


Feb. 14, 1834 






James Mitchell, 




Dec. 26, 1833 


Dec. 14. 1881 






George Lewis, 




Oct 16, 1835 








Frederick Eichelberger 




Mar. 27, 1838 








Maria Henrietta, 


1 


Apr. 5, 1840 








Niles Harrison, 




Mar. 29, 1842 




Single. 




Juliette, M. D., 


Washington, D. C. 


Jan., 1844 








Catherine Louisa, 




Feb. 4, 1846 


July 26, 1847 


ti 




Edgar, 


York, Pa. 


May 19, 1848 






V 


Geo. L. Shearer, D.D.,), 
Mary Ketchum, \ 


New York City. 


Oct. 16, 1835 






VI 


Mary Young, 
Elizabeth, 
Leauder Y., 
Edith, 


t> 

(1 










George, 


II 




Died young. 






Catherine, 


i «• 










Conway Wing 


« 










Margaret, 


It 







66 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



67 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


Frederick E. Shearer, ) 


New York City. 










D. D., t 


«( 










Kate B. Russell, ) 


<c 








VI 


Louisa Russell, 


iC 










George Louis, 


t( 




Deceased. 






Kitty, 


11 










Anna Dampert, 


« 










Frederick E., Jr., 


tl 




^ 






Margery, 


ti 








V 


Maria H. Shearer,) 
William Dyson, ) 


York or Baltimore. 


Nov. 3, 1837 


Apr. 20, 1866 






li 








VI 


Logan, 










V 


Mrs. Maria H. Dyson,) 
Edward Wagoner, j 


York or Baltimore. 




Dec. 27. 1883 






M 








V 


Jas. M. Shearer, M. D.,) 
Georgia Cowan. i 
No issue. 


Dillsburg, Pa. 


Dec. 26, 1838 






V 


Niles H. Shearer, M.D.) 
Mary Keyworth, ) 


York, Pa. 










n 








VI 


George, 


4fc 


About 1890 








Bessie, 


tt 


1892 


Deceased. 






Juliette, 


t( 


1896 






IV 


Catherine Eichelberger ) 
Enoch Young, ) 


; 


1809 


Jan. 1885 






Carlisle, Pa. 




Unknown. 






No issue. 








1836. 


IV 
V 


Maria Eichelberger. | 
James McCosh, ) 

George, 

Lida, 


Gettysburg, Pa. and 
St. Louis, Mo. 








V 


George McCosh, M. D. ) 
Isabelle Sherer, ) 


St. Louis, Mo. 










it 








VI 


Genevieve, 


it 


• 






V 


Lida McCofh.t 
Arthur Clark, j 


St. Louis, Mo. 








VI 


Myra, 












Arthur, 


(( 




Deceased. 






Frederick Eichelberger 


ti 







68 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




III 


Col. Frederick Eichel- 
berger, 


Dillsburg, Pa., and 
Frederick, Md. 


Jan. 24, 1783 


Sept. 5, 1836 






Catherine Baker, 




Aug. 30,1782 


Sept. 19, 1869 






No issue. 








Nov. 1813 


III 


Geo. M. Eichelberger, [ 
Jane Grayson, j 


Frederick, Md. 


Feb. 11, 1784 


Ian. 16, 1854 






ik 


1795 


Feb. 2, 1870 




IV 


Ann Elizabeth, 


(t 


1814 








Lydia, 


it 




Died in inf'y 


Single. 




Niles, 


it 


Nov. 3, 1819 


Jan. 17, 1841 






Grayson, 


it 


Aug. 8, 1821 








Margaret, 


C( 


Mar. 7, 1824 




II 




Harvey, 




1826 


Feb. 23, 1893 


It 




William Allen, 
Mary Jane, 


cc 


1827 
Sept. 5, 1828 


Aug 30, 1863 


Jan. 1836. 


IV 


Ann E. Eichelberger, ) 
Charles A. Gambrill, f 


Baltimore, Md. 


1814 


Aug., 1853 














V 


Jane, 

M. Louisa, 




Mar., 1837 
June 29.1838 








Albert, 




1846 


May 20, 1900 


Single 




Mary, 




Mar. 5, 1847 


July 16, 1^68 






Richard A., 




Dec, 1848 


Jan. 4. 1890 


( 1 




Charles A., 

Emily, Juliette, Eddie, 
George and Charlie 
all died in infancy. 




Aug. 12,1851 


July 26, 1896 


June 1863 


V 


•lane Gambrill, I 
Robert Tyson, ) 
No issue, 


Baltimore, Md , 


Mar , 18S7 


Mar., 1864 


Dec. 24, 


V 


M Louisa Gambrill,) 
Patrick H. McGill, j 


Baltimore, Md. 


June 29, 1838 


Mar. 22, 1892 


1874. 














No issue. 










V 


Albert Gambrill, | 
Laura Webb, \ 


Baltimore, Md. 


1846 


May 20, 1900 














VI 


Albert, Jr , 


it 


1875 




Single. 




Laura, 


(1 


1878 




t( 




Louise, 

Mary and Ethel died 
in infancy. 


it 


1880 




1898. 


VI 


Albert Gambrili, Jr., ) 
Nannie Coulter, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


1875 


















One son. 




1900 





EICHELBEKGER FAMILY EECORD. 



69 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1889. 


V 


Richard A. Gambrill, ) 
Anna Van Nest, ) 


Baltimore, Md 


Dec, 1848 


Jan. 4, 1890 






New York City. 








VI 


Richard Van Nest, 


it 


July 11, 1890 




May 21, 












1844. 


IV 


Grayson Eichelberger, ) 
Amanda Baugher, ) 


Frederick, Md. 


A.ug 8, 1821 


Feb. 17,1870 








July 13,182'> 


July 24, 1885 


Single. 


V 


Ella Virginia, 
Frances Marian, 


(( 


Mar. 9, 1845 
Aug 20, 1846 








Edward Shriver, 


(t 


June 16, 1856 








Byrd Gambrill, 


<( 


Mar. 27, 1860 




t( 




Effle Grace, 
Edmund W., 
Charles B , 
William J., 


<t 


Jan. 15, 1865 


Died in inf'y 


June 19, 


V 


Frances M. Eichelberg- ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


Aug. 20, 1846 


Oct. 28, 1875 


1873. 


VI 


er, >■ 
Cornelius H. Hill, ) 
One son died in inf y. 








June 28, 


V 


Edw. S. Eichelberger, > 


Frederick, Md. 


June 16, 1856 




1894 




Miriam Gray, | 


ti 


Dec. 16, 1869 


• 




VI 


Margaret Grayson, 


ti 


Sept. 18, 1896 




» 




Edward Gray, 


<( 


June 10, 1900 




Jan. 3, 


V 


Byrd G. Eichelberger, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


Mar. 27, 1860 




1900. 




Lorella Dangerfield |- 
Faunt-Le-Roy, ) 




1880 




July, 1847 


IV 


Margaret Eichelberger, ) 

dau. of George M , V 

John T. Woodside, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 
it 


Mar. 7, 1824 


Sep .12,1893 




V 


William S , 

Margaret 8., 

George, Daniel, and 

Grace, all died in 

infancy. 




1850 
May 19, 1852 


Aug.15, 1897 




V 


William S. Woodside,) 
Jessie Coulter, ^ 


Baltimore, Md. 








VI 


Several children.names 
unknown. 









70 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAME3. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 




V 


Margaret 8. "Woodside, ) 
Albion J. Corning, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 


















VI 


John W., 


Boston, Mass. 


1873 








Charles, K^i^g 
Albion, pwi'is- 


Baltimore, Md. 
•t 


1880 








Margaret, 




1884 




1900. 


VI 


Albion Corning, Jr., ) 
Hannah Barclay, ) 


Baltimore, Md. 
















Feb., 1847 


IV 


Mary J. Eichelberger ) 
Jermingham Boone, ) 


Frederick, Md. 


Sept. 5, 1828 


Dec. 27, 1860 






i( 






Single. 


V 


Jermingham, 


St. Louis, Mo. 


1848 


1898 


tt 




Janie, 


Buckeystown, Md. 


1849 




Ik 




Nancy, 


ii 


1850 


1852 


it 




Robert, 
Katie, 




Apr. 30, 1854 
May, 1856 


Mar. 14, 1878 


ti 




Margaret, 


tt 


1858 




1894. 


V 


Katie Boone, ) 
William Stonebraber, J 












Washington Oo.,Md. 








III 


John Eichelberger, ) 
Maria f 


Dillsburg, Pa. 


Feb. 6, 1787 


July 1, 1833 












Single 


IV 


John, 


Monaghan Township 


1817 








John Alexander, 


York Co., Pa. 


1819 




1838. 


IV 


John A Eichelberger,") 


Phila., Pa., and Md. 


1819 








Elenore Tolbert Chaui- - 


Terre Haute, Ind. 


July 30, 1820 








bus, ) 










V 


William Cbambus, 
John Stephens, 




July 19, 1840 
July 26, 1843 




Single. 




James A , U. S. A., 
Charles S , 


Danville, III. 


July 25, 1846 
June 1, IS.'ie 




a 




Eugene M., 




May 20, 1853 


Aug. 10, 1856 


tt 




Margaret J., 
Arnold P , 




Oct 30. 1849 
Mar. 14, 1858 


Sept., 1869 


t< 




Clarence E., 




June 23, I860 


May 11, 1861 


Jan. 16, 


V 


William C Eichelber- ) 


Terre Haute, Ind. 


July 19, 1840 




1877. 




ger, M. D. [ 
Octavia Bornett, ) 


^^ 








VI 


Harry Burnett, 


it 


July 4, 1879 


July 18, 1888 



EICHELBEKGER FAMILY EECOED. 



71 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Dec. 15, 

1869 
Single. 



V 
VI 



•John 8. Eichelberger,!^ 
Georgianna Monroe, j 

William C, Jr., 

Frank, 

Hallie, 



V Charles 8. Eichelberger 
Mary Grace, 

No issue. 



V 
VI 

III 

IV 



Arnold P. Eichelberget) 

Clark, ; 

Clark S., 



Mary M. Eichelberger,) 
Bernard Welty, ) 

Daniel, 

Eliza, 

Mary, 

Jacob, 

William, 

Joseph, 

James, 



IV Daniel Welty,) 
Sophia Livas, ) 

V Julia, (Charles Wilson) 
Mary, (Joseph Hobbs.) 
Sophia, (Jas Granger.) 
Harriet,(James Wheel- 
er.) 

Frank, (Margaret Reid) 
Eichelberger, (Melissa 

Ayler.) 
Oily, (Joseph Hobbs.) 



IV Eliza Welty, | 
Joseph Wise,) 
Felix, 
Imogen, 



IV 



IV 



Mary Welty, ) 
Frederick Black,) 
No known issue. 



Jacob Welty, ) 

Elizabeth Hannagan,) 
No known issue. 



Residence. 



Terre Haute, Ind. 






Terra Haute, Ind. 



Terre Haute, Ind. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



« 
it 
It 

ti 

<t 



Dillsburg, Fa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



Birth. 



Death. 



July 26, 1843 
1889 



Jan. 1, 1856 

Mar. 14, 1858 
1883 



Jan. 20, 1778 
Aug. 20, 1774 



Sept.27, 1897 
June 23, 1896 



Aug., 1896 
Sept., 1897 



Oct. 16, 1829 
Apr. 1, 1856 



72 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Single 



Single. 



Mar. 18, 
1813. 



April 7, 

1840 
Single. 



2d Mar. 

Dec. 11, 

1856. 



IV 
V 

III 

IV 



IV 

IV 
V 



III 

III 
III 

IV 

V 
VI 

IV 



Joseph Welty, \ 
Barbara Troxell,) 

Anna, 

Mary, 

Juliette, 



Sarah Eichelberger, ) 
Frederick Welty, ) 

Jeremiah, 

Eliza, 

Levi, 

Kezia M., 

Caroline E , 

Lydia A., 



Kezia M. Welty, > 
James N. Blair, ) 
No issue. 

Lydia A. Welty, ) 
Jacob Coover, J 
Sarah Eichelberger, 
Morrett, (Victorine 

Roundfort ; 3 chil 

dren.) 
Frederick Welty,(Eliza- 

beth ; 2 children) 

Ella May, (John N. 

Logau ; 6 children.) 
Laura V , 
Jacob George, 



Susan Eichelberger, 
Lewis Sherer. 

If issue, unknown. 



Elizabeth Eichelberger ) 
Henry Richenbach, ) 
No issue. 

Lydia Eichelberger,) 
Daniel Bailey, > 

Elizabeth <^iaroline, 
Frederick Eichelberger 



Frederick E Bailey,) 
Matilda Doudel, ) 

Daniel D., U S. A. 

Susan Lydia, 



Matilda D. Bailey,) 

Levi Welty, i 

No issue. 



Dillsburg, Pa 



Ci 

i( 
tc 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



ti 
ii 



Dillsburg, Pa. 
Dillsburg, Pa. 



York, Pa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 



Dillsburg, Pa. 
York, Pa. 

Dillsburg, Pa. 
Dillsburg, Pa. 



Apr., 1781 
Mar. 13, 1779 



1794 



Mar. 3, 1789 



Nov. 7, 1792 
Aug. 27, 1791 



1830 
Apr. 28, 1877 
Died in inf y 



Nov. 8, 1818 



Aug.24, 1842 
July 1, 1853 



Feb. 9, 1814 Oct. 24, 1814 
Feb. 16, 1816 



Feb 16, 1816 
Nov. 21, 1842 

Jan. 21, 1811 



Apr. 7, 1845 
Aug. 8, 1863 



Mar. 29, 1894 
Apr. 8, 1892 



Line of Lewis Eichelberger, 

Fourth Son of Philip Frederick Eichelberger and His Second Wife, 

Magdalene. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


1774. 


II 


Lewis Eichelberger,)^ 


Adams Co.. Pa. 


Dec 1, 1752 


Mar., 1801 






Elizabeth Bair, jT 


Littlestown, Pa. 


1756 


1858 




III 


Frederick, 
Adam, 




1776 
1780 




Single. 




Ludwig or Lewis, 


Adams Co., Pa. 


1790 


1830 


ki 




Michael, 
Jacob, 


II 


Oct. 22, 1791 
Mar., 1786 




>t 




George, 
Elizabeth, 


ti 


Dec. 14, 1793 
Jan 23. 1780 


Apr., 1801 


tt 




Martalena, 


ti 


1783 




11 




8a,ly;['--- 


II 

41 


Oct. 10, 1798 


1802 


tt 




Hannah, 


11 


Dec. 23, 1795 


May 13, 1798 




III 


Frederick Eichelberger I 


Pennsylvania, and 
Springfield, Ohio. 


1776 






) 






IV 


Joseph, 




1804 




1819. 


III 


Adam Eichelberger,^ 


Frederick Co , Md. 


1780 


1849 






Polly Koontz, j 




1799 


1835 




IV 


Adam Lewis 
Green bury, 




May 1, 1824 
1819 




Single. 




Henry Martin, 


<t 


1821 




ti 




Lewis, 


It 


1823 








Sarah, (Mr. Abrecht ; 


ft 


1830 








issue.) 












Mary,(Mr Beall ; issue) 


tt 


1828 








Kebecca, (Mr. Smith ; 












issue.) 








»i 




Susan, 








1837. 


III 


Adam Eichelberger, 1 
Mrs. Hannah Leppold, J 




1780 


1849 


2d wife. 












IV 


Peter, 

Josephine Catherine, 

Neil, 

Clementine, 

Hannah, 




■ 


i 


80 






73 







74 



EICHELBERGEE FAMILY EECORD. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Ill 
IV 



1796. 

Single. 
Married 

Single 



III 
IV 



1846. 



IV 
V 



1836. 



Single. 



IV 



Jacob Eichelberger, ) 
Catherine Koontz, J 
Anna Maria, 
Loudan, 
Samuel, 
Catherine, 
Mary Louvina, 
William Lewis, 
George Henry, 
Nancy Margaret, 
Ann Savilla, 



Elizabeth Eichelberger ) 
Michael Dotterer, ) 

Frederick, (Idiot.) 

John, 

George, 

Jacob, 

Lydia, 

Eliza, 

David, 

Sallie, 

Michael Eichelberger, 

Anna Maria, 



LINE OF ADAM, 

Second son of 
Lewis. 



Adams Co., Pa. 



Columbus Co., Ohio, 
'ohio. 



er ) 



Adam L. Eichelberger 
Sarah Elizabeth Hah 

William Henry, 

Francis, 

Marian, 

Abraham, 



Pa. and Fred. Co. Md 

Littlestown, Pa. 

Maryland. 



Greenbury Eichelberg-) 
er, - 

Mary Elizabeth Barnds) 
Elnora Catherine, (Mr. 

Smoot.) 
James Weldon, 
Laura Madeline, 
Daniel Greenbury, — 
(Married; no issue.) 
Lewis Cass, 
MaryElizabeth ) 
Mary Eugenia, \ 
Eliza Barnds, 



twins. 



Mar., 1780 
Dec 22, 1794 
July 30, 1815 
Dec. 18. 1816 
Sept. 8, 1818 
Oct. 5, 1820 
July 4, 1833 
Nov. 26, 1828 
June 6, 1831 
Aug. 31, 1836 
Apr. 15, 1827 



Jan. 23, 1880 
Dec. 12, 1774 
Jan. 23, 1798 



Sept 6, 1855 
Mar. 19, 1847 



1804 



Oct 21, 1814 
Dec. 25, 1816 
Nov. 9, 1818 



It 



Frederick Co , Md. 
Agency — S. Dakota, 

Washington, D. C. 
Point of Rocks, Md, 



May 1, 1824 



Feb. 25, 1843 
Deceased. 



Died young. 



About 1893. 



1819 

1820 
1837 

1838 
1841 
1844 

1851 
1852 



1854 
1863 

1892 
Died in inf'y 



EICHELBEEGER FAMILY RECORD. 



75 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



1867. 


IV 


2d Wife. 


V 


1833. 


IV 




V 


July 15, 
1849. 


IV 
V 


Single. 




(( 




1844. 


IV 


1858. 


IV 




V 







Greenbury Eichelberg- 

er, 

Mary E. Knouffle, 
John Franklin, 



LINE OF JOHANNE 
JACOB. 



Anna M. Eichelberger, ) 
Anthony Kronk, j 

Catherine, 

Anna, 

Sophronia, 

Loudan or Anthony, 
Jr.. 

Martin, 

Joseph, 

Elias, 

Pamela, 

Masilla, 

Lesta, 



Loudan Eichelberger,) 
Catherine Gingrich, f 
Sidney Ann, (George 

Hevel; 3 children.) 
William Henry, 
Almyra AUie, (George 

Booth ; 2 sons ) 
Mary Jane, (William 

Vogtman ; 1 child.) 
Jessie Almeda, (Byron 

Rainier; 2 children.) 
Ida May, (Henry Beck ; 

1 son ) 
Edward Burton, 



Catherine Eichelberger) 
John Heizerman, | 

No issue. 



Nancy Margaret Eich- 
elberger, 
James N. Kennedy, 
Two children, 



Baltimore, Md, 



1819 



1869 



Pennsylvania, and 
Elkhart, Indiana. 



St. Louis, Michigan, 



July 30, 1815 



Pennsylvania, and 
Waterloo, Indiana. 



(I 
it 



Ohio. 



Dec. 18, 1816 

July 2, 1852 

May 25, 1855 
July 4, 1857 

Aug. 20, 1859 

May 30, 1862 

May 8, 1864 

Oct. 25, 1866 

Oct. 5, 1820 



Aug.31, 1836 



Indiana. 



About 1893. 



About 1885. 



Apr. 8. 1894 

Sept., 1867 

Mar. 27, 1884 

Apr. 8, 1858 



1844 



186- 



76 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY RECORD. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


May 7, 


IV 


Ann Savilla Eichelber- ) 


Michigan. 


Apr. 15, 1827 


Dec. 12, 1897 


1848. 




ger, [ 
Daniel Stambach, ) 


(C 








V 


Simon, 

George H., (I. Louisa 

VanSickle; Il.Sarah 

Rounds.) 




Sept. 1, 1849 
Aug. 1. 1851 








Mary, (Ira Nelson.) 




May, 21 1853 


Feb. 26, 1882 






William F., 




Nov. 14, 1855 


Aug. 5, 1858 






Albertis. 




Jan. 3, 1858 








Elmer W., 




Oct. 2, 1859 








James L., (Bertha 




Dec. 7, 1861 








Peck.) 












John C, (Sarah Rus- 




Apr. 9, 1864 








sel ) 












Elizabeth Eichelberger, 




Aug. 13, 1866 








Olive Irene,) »^- „ 
Oliver Ira, I ^^'''^• 




Dec. 9, 1870 




July 4, 


IV 


William L Eichelber- ) 


Iowa. 


Nov. 26, 1828 


Nov 25, 1886 


1859. 




ger, [ 












Jane Newton, ) 


Illinois. 


Oct. 17, 1840 


Aug.31, 1887 


Single. 


V 


Edward Franklin, 
Mary Ella, 
Ida May, 
William Carson, 


Woodstock, 111. 


Aug 22,1862 
May 6, 1864 
Nov. 13, 1866 
May 25, 1869 




Single. 




Charles Elmer, 


Iowa. 


Jan. 10, 1868 


Feb. 8, 1863 


K 




Ulysses S., 


t( 


Dec, 1873 


Apr. 16, 1874 


t i 




Carrie J., 


<t 


Apr. 20, 1877 


Mar. 16, 1881 


Mar. 9, 


V 


Mary E. Eichelberger, ) 
Andrew Walser, J 


Northwood, Iowa. 






1886 




i< 








VI 


Charles W., 


tt 


Dec. 29, 1886 








Dora M., 


i( 


Sept. 23, 1888 








Helen Blanche, 


t( 


Nov. 25, 1894 








Robert A., 


It 


Feb. 5, 1900 


A"* 


Nov. 28, 


V 


Ida May Eichelberger,) 
James Barker, > 


Northwood, Iowa. 






,1889. 




(t 








VI 


Ethel May, 


it 


Apr 11, 1891 








Edith M., 


It 


June 9, 1895 








Pearl M., 


it 


Aug. 14, 1898 





eichelb:eegee family record. 



77 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth, 


Death. 


Nov. 4, 


V 


William Carson Eich- ) 


Woodstock, Illinois. 






1890. 




elberger, >- 
Edith Boutelle, ) 


Iowa. 








VI 


Leslie Ernest, 
Bessie E., 
Glen Bennitt, 




May 6, 1893 
Oct. 30, 1895 
Sept.27, 1898 




1860. 


IV 


George Henry Eichel-1 
berger, youngest 1 
son of John Jacob, | 

Lenora L. Lockwood,J 


Pontiac, Illinois. 


June 6. 1831 


Aug. 20, 1880 




V 


Mary, 
William, 

Stephen LeRoy, (Mar- 
ried ; has one child.) 
Henry Edwin, 


Ottawa, Illinois. 
Pontiac, Illinois. 




Deceased. 


Single. 




Lovina, 






(i 


t( 




George Francis, 


Farms— 3 miles from 
Pontiac, Illinois. 






it 




Harriet Lenora, 


(t 


1879 




July, 1852 


IV 


Mary L. Eichelberger, ) 
Timothy McEndafer, J 


Michigan. 














July, 1852 




V 


Isabelle, (Elisha Guth- 
rie ; Roy and Effie ) 


Indiana. 


Apr.20, 1853 


Sept.l7, 1881 






Lovinda, (Henry Metz- 


(1 


Sept. 19, 1854 


July 19, 1882 






gar; 5 children.) 












Byron, (Nancy Fried; 


t( 


May 28, 1856 








Orpha.) 








|. -. 




Oliver, (Mattie Mc- 


(1 


Oct. 12, 1858 




1 




Maury; 2 children.) 








1 




Olive, twin of Oliver, 


(( 


« 




P 




(Jacob Henson; no 












issue.) 








Nov. 5, 


IV 


Mary L E. McEndafer, | 
Henry Myers, [ 


i 






1866. 




f 






1 




No issue. 

> 
i 


I 
\ 

i 

i 
; 




j 



78 



EICHELBERGER FAMILY EECOED. 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



IV 
V 



IV 
V 



IV 
V 



IV 
V 



IV 
V 



IV 
V 



John Dotterer, 



Issue. 



George Dotterer,! 



Issue. 



Lydia Dotterer, ) 
Miller, y 



Issue. 



Eliza Dotterer,) 
Henry Wayne, > 
Issue. 



David Dotterer, 



Issue. 



Sallie Dotterer, ) 
Jacob Coblentz, ) 
Issue. 



Ohio. 



Ohio. 



Indiana. 



Liberty Mills, Wa- 
bash Co., Ind. 



North Lind, Ind. 



1800 



1803 



1806 



1810 



1814 



Unknown, 



Unknown. 



Dec.25, 1816 



Unknown. 



Unknown. 



Unknown. 



EICHELBERGEE, FAMILY RECORD. 



79 



Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



1846. 



Married. 

Single. 
Married. 



IV 
V 



1842. 



IV 



Michael Eichelberger ) 

Dotterer, [■ 

Elizabeth Warner, ' j 

Obediah, 

Caroline, 

Catherine, 

Sophia, 



Anna Maria Dotterer,) 
Henry Smith, j 

Martha, (John L. Stew- 
art; 3 children.) 
Sophia, (Jacob Mohr; 
one child, deceased.) 
Mary Elizabeth, (Rob- 
ert Erkskine ; 2 chil 
dren.) 
Henry D., (Edna Mil- 
ler; 4 children.) 



Eesidence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Lowellville, Ohio. 



« 
« 
(t 



Nov. 9, 1818 



Feb. 1, 1848 
Dec. 21, 1847 
Nov. 27, 1856 
Apr. 22, 1852 



Nov. 9, 1893 



Died young 



Lowellville, Ohio. 

Cleveland, Ohio. 

Lowellville, Ohio. 



Mar. 10, 1820 
Jan. 4, 1813 
Feb. 28, 1843 

Oct. 23, 1844 

May 14, 1853 

Apr. 14, 1866 



Nov. 11, 1892 
Apr. 29, 1871 



Sept., 1899 



BRIEF SKETCH 



OF 



Capt. Caspar Reinacker 



AND 



His Immediate Family. 



Captain Caspar Reinacker 

And His Immediate Family. 



Although this Historical Record is meant to deal entirely with 
those of the Eichelberger name, yet as the second son, by the sec- 
ond marriage of Philip Frederick Eichelberger, when he married a 
Miss Reinacker, and as so many of their descendants are now living 
in our immediate neighborhood, it is thought that to them at 
least, a slight sketch of the Reinacker family would be of impor- 
tance, especially to those who are interested in Colonial history, 
as Captain Caspar Reinacker, a Captain in the Revolutionary 
Army, was the father of our grandmother. 

At their home in Germany, (the precise town or principality we 
are unable to give,) on the 30th of July, 1733, there was born to 
Adam Reinacker and his wife Elizabeth, a son, Caspar. In his 
early youth, in 1750, he came to America, with his two brothers, 
Paul and Martin, and probably a large party of others. Where 
the two brothers settled we can but guess, for only recently have I 
learned of a number of Reinackers living on Silver Run, in the 
upper section of Carroll County, Maryland. Among these there 
are several of the name of Paul, which fact would seem to indicate 
that they are descendants of Caspar's brother, Paul Reinacker. 

In Gibson's History of York County, Pennsylvania, which was 
published in 1886, I find that Caspar Reinacker was a Captain in 
the Sixth Battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia, in 1774, '75 and 
'76, and during that time was elected a member of the " Commit- 
tee of Safety " for the country's government. This is undoubted 
evidence of his loyalty to the colony during the Revolution. In 
this same history I find, among the list of annual assessments for 
1783, that Caspar was taxed for 250 acres in Manheim Township, 
and 25 acres and a house and lot, two horses, two head of cattle, 
and three negroes, in Heidelberg Township, York County. 



4 • THE REINACKER FAMILY. 

The earliest documentary information I have of Caspar Reinack- 
er dates back to the 3d of June, 1763, in a deed he gave my great- 
grandfather, Philip Frederick Eichelberger, for a tract of land he 
sold him. The next is for a lot of ground he purchased from 
Richard McAllister, the founder of Hanover, in 1764. Subsequent- 
ly he bought three more town lots, on several of which he paid an 
annual ground rent until May, 1790 ; after which time his son, 
Conrad, one of his executors, paid it until 1794. I have all these 
receipts in my possession, and I am living on one of the lots. In 
the deeds which give the occupation of the parties, Caspar was 
usually designated as a " yeoman," which is a farmer. In one he 
was called a " merchant," in another a "gentleman." 

So we are supposedly correct in saying that Caspar settled on his 
arrival in America, in what was just about that time newly styled 
York County, in Pennsylvania. The 17th of October, of the 
following year, saw him united in marriage to Anna Maria Carle, 
daughter of Adam Carle, a large landholder in that neighborhood. 
She bore him ten children, three sons and seven daughters. Capt. 
Caspar Reinacker's will was executed the 13th of November, 1783, 
and his death occurred on the 30th of July, 1790, when he was 57 
years of age. His wife, Anna Maria, died about one year previous- 
ly. They were first buried in " Winebrenner's graveyard," about 
a mile north of Hanover, from which their remains were removed 
by me to Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover, together with their tomb- 
stones in September, 1885. 

Their oldest child, Anna Maria, was married about 1770, to Jacob 
Eichelberger, and the only child'of this couple, Jacob, Jr., was my 
father. The oldest son of Caspar, George Reinacker, settled in 
Baltimore, the early part of the Revolution, and was Quarter- 
master there for several years. He married Elizabeth Fite, by 
whom he had five sons and one daughter. All these died without 
issue except one son, John, who married Anna Maria Fite. Their 
children who survived years of childhood were,— George A. Rein- 
acker, who died without children during this last year in Balti- 
more ; and Elizabeth Herr, of York, who was still living at last 
accounts. 



THE REINACKER FAMILY. J 

Catherine, second daughter and third child of Caspar, was mar- 
ried to George Kuhn,-of Hanover, about 1777. By him she had 
four children, but was soon called to her Heavenly home, and was 
obliged to leave her young family. 

Conrad, the second son of Caspar, was an inn-keeper, first in 
Hanover, but removed to Baltimore, in 1795. We first thought he 
must have lived single, but a very short time since I discovered an 
old record of a deed of lot 74 here in Hanover, sold by Conrad 
Reinacker and his wife Eve, made to my grandfather, Jacob Eich- 
elberger, in 1793. This is all the record we have of Conrad's fam- 
ily, so suppose he had no children. 

Elizabeth, third daughter, married Henry Sherman, and lived 
near Littlestown, Pennsylvania. They had only one son, Jacob 
Sherman. 

Anna Dorothea or Nancy, as the fourth daughter of Caspar Rein- 
acker was commonly called, married Jacob Fite, about 1793. They 
lived in Baltimore, and it was this Jacob Fite, who, with his wife's 
brother, Conrad, built and presented to Congress, Congress Hall, 
in Baltimore, and in which building Congress actually sat. This 
couple had four children, three sons and one daughter, — Conrad R., 
Henry, William and Eliza. 

Clara, the youngest child of Caspar and Anna Maria, married 
Cornelius H. Gist. They had eight children, — William, Pamelia, 
Lucy, Cornelius, Jr., Eliza, Joshua, Emeline and Joseph. 

The descendants of Captain Caspar Reinacker may well be proud 
of his record as a patriot. For so young a man, with home, and 
family cares and joys, dependent mainly upon him, to leave that 
home, to risk that life, for the sake of any country less dear than 
the "Faderland," was much : — to give up time which was needed 
to procure the necessities for those who made the home so dear, to 
assume the arduous duties necessitated by becoming a member of 
that home patrol, court, law and order, called the "Committee of 
Safety," was more. Often when enthused by patriotic speeches, 
martial music, and enthusiastic example a man will offer his ser- 
vices as a soldier, a thing which commits him for a length of time, 
whether his valor endures or no ; but for a. busy man, day after 



6 THE REINACKER FAMILY. 

day, to expend time, thought, careful business ability, and all the 
thorough legal shrewdness which his mind can command, to freely 
give services such as those to one's country, means a great deal. 
May I always be the last to decry the nobility of our valiant sol- 
dier and sailor sons ; but they have much honor, — and I think 
some is due also to those who stayed at home, protected the coun- 
try from the foes of lawlessness, want and barren fields. Captain 
Caspar Reinacker did both, he, his son, and son-in-law, have 
placed the names of Reinacker and Fite, where all true patriots 
may see, and can but admire. 



Genealogical Record 



OF 



Captain Caspar Reinacker and His Wife Anna Maria Carle. 



Marriage 


Gen 


NAMES. 


Residence. 


Birth. 


Death. 


Oct. 17, 


I 


Caspar Reinacker, 


Germany, and York 


July 80, 1733 


Aug.l7, 1790 


1751. 




Anna Maria Carle, 


Co , Pa , 


^ug. 23, 1736 


Aug.22, 1789 




II 


Anna Maria, 




Mch.26,1752 


May 19,1837 






Johan George, 


Baltimore, Md , 


July 25, 1754 








Maria Cadarina, 


danover, Pa., 


July 3. 1757 


1781 






Eva Margreda, 




Mch.l5, 1762 








Susanah, 




Mar. 12, 1764 


Apr. 23, 1781 






Conradt, 




Aug 10,1766 








Johan Adam, 




Sept.28, 1768 








Elizabeth, 




Feb. 23, 1771 








Anna Dorodea, 


Baltimore, Md., 


Aug. 10, 1773 








Clara, 


West Virginia, 


Feb. 15, 1776 






II 


Anna Maria Reinacker, 




Mch 26, 1752 


May 19, 1837 






Jacob Eichelberger, 




1746 


Aug. 14,1811 




III 


Jacob Eichelberger^ 
(This branch continued 
in the Eichelberger Fam- 
ily Kecord.) 










II 


Johan George, 
Elizabeth Fite, 




July 25, 1 754 






III 


Henry, 
Edward, 
George A., 
John, 









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Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



IV 

IV 
V 



III John Eeinacker, 
Pamela Eite, 

IV George A., 
Elizabeth, 

George A. Eeinacker, 
Eliza C. Fite, 

Elizabeth Eeinacker, 
John Herr, 

Michael, 

Edward, (MissLandis.) 

Henry, 

Mary, 

Lucy, 

Anna, (Prof. Shelly ) 

II Maria Cadrina Eeinacker 

George Kuhn, 
HI I Susan, 

Sarah, 

George, 

Elizabeth, 

Susan Kuhn, 
Charles Zeigler, 

Eve, 

Emanuel, 

Sarah, 

Maria, 

Elizabeth Kuhn, 
George Sherman, 

Conrad, 

Henry, 

George, 

Susan, 

Elizabeth Eeinacker, 
Henry Sherman 

(Jacob Sherman, 

(Miss Parr, 

fEliza Sherman, 
-Jacob Sterner, 
(David Boyer, 

Nancy Eeinacker, 
Jacob Fite, 

Conrad R., 

Henry, 

WiUiam, 

Eliza C, 



Baltimore, Md. 

No issue. 



Ill 
IV 

III 
IV 

II 
III 

IV 

II 
III 



Birth. 



Death. 



1813 



Dec. 27, 1813 
1817 



Hanover, Pa., 



York, Pa., 
Dlllsburg, Pa., 
Hanover, Pa. 



Nov. 1, 1899 



Nov. 1. 1899 
1889 



III 
IV 



Conrad Eeinacker Fite, 
Pamela Gist, 

Henry, 

Cornelius, 

Mary, 

Eliza, (G. A.Reinacker) 

Ella, 



Baltimore, Md., 



8 



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Marriage 



Gen 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Birth. 



Death. 



Single 



II 

III 



Clara Reinacker, 
CorneliuB H. Gist, 

William Giat, 

Pamelia, 

Lucy, 

Cornelius, Jr., 

Eliza, 

Joshua, 

Eraeline, 

Joseph, 

William Gist, 
Martha , 



III 



Jan. 31, 
1834. 



Ill 

IV Georgia, 
Maria, 
William, 
Edward, 
Clara, 
Mary, 

Lucy Gi&t. • 
Basil Beall, 

Basil, 

Charles, 

Clara, 

Bill, 

Lucy, 

Mary, 

James, 

III Joshua Gist, 
Maria Waugb, 

IV ('allie, 
Eliza, 
Lucy, 

III Eliza Gist, 
Mr. Jones, 

III Cornelius Gist, Jr., 

Isabella Moore, 
lY Oara, 
Sallie, 
Emily, 
Pamelia, 
* James, 

III Emeline Gist, 
Joseph Boyle, 

IV Leonidas, 
Wilbur, 
Emma, 

III Joseph C. Gist, 
Elizabeth Culver, 

IV Samuel, 
Joshua, 
Joseph, 
Rachel, 
Mary, 
Lucy, 



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Mar. 30, 1813 



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